Katie Krueger's Snippets of Gratitude

Spinning classes are hard enough, so when the instructor plays crappy music, it becomes torturous.  My latest class was made up of a hodgepodge of Top 40 Hits from the years 1989-1995, with some slow jams from the early 2000s.  As much as I love Five For Fighting’s Superman for driving in the rain, it [...]

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The internet is such an amazing tool that has opened my world wider than imaginable. One of my favorite recent connections made via “le net” is with a fellow linguist who has created a website dedicated to learning Wolof. How cool is that?! Why not expand your own vocabulary today and learn 10 Random Wolof [...]

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After only one day’s break from the blog, I come back to find comments! Lots of comments, waiting for approval. I can’t believe people comment on my blog -it makes me SO happy. It’s like having a conversation with friends, old and new. It makes me so happy, in fact, that I have added a [...]

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The last couple days I’ve been fighting off the winter blues. The day after my birthday was a particular let down because people who had greeted me with squeals, showered me with attention, and wished me well were back to their normal modus operandi: treating me just like everyone else. In addition, it has been [...]

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I can’t say enough times how grateful I am to have a new (awesome!) camera from my dad. A perfect Christmas present. I’ve taken pictures nearly every day since I received the camera. It makes life so much more fun. I am learning to embrace being the observer, sometimes intrusive with my camera. I have [...]

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This morning, I woke up early and stayed in bed reading Population: 485. I was even delivered the luxury of coffee in bed, so I had no worldy reason to leave the cozy warmth. Eventually, the coffee filtered its way back to the world, giving me a reason. Nature is but a cycle, our bodies [...]

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