Dad's 100 Poems, Riddles, and Songs in 100 Days

Jeffrey Krueger started writing Dad's 100 Poems, Riddles, and Songs in 100 Days on September 20, 2021, finishing on December 29, 2021. He began exploring writing as a challenge to his dyslexic learning disorder in 2004. Now, he had a new challenge: to write one hundred poems, riddles, and songs in one hundred days. It was a crazy idea since he only had written several poems prior.

The whole concept became interesting when he talked to his brother. After emailing a few poems to him to see what he thought, he replied by saying "Don't quit your day job."

Jeff replied, "I don't have a day job." His brother continued by telling him the story of their father boasting about how he was going to finish a book of poems and make a lot of money to take care of them.

In his autobiography, he explained the difficult journey his father had with his alcohol and sickness. He could barely keep a job, let alone write a book of poems. Jeffrey explained to his brother that he had several of his dad's poems and maybe he could figure out some meaningful way to pass them on. So, he set out to finish what his dad started, beginning with Dad's 100 Poems, Riddles, and Songs in 100 Days and ending with his dad's original poems.

His poems range from sometimes silly subjects, a mouse, socks circus, balloons, clouds, to more serious reflections on his life, loss of a loved one, addiction, abuse, depression, divorce, and also recording daily moments of the surroundings and habitat around him. Some commentary on certain subjects' freedom, sports, war, and the environment. Many of his poems are also a reflection of his Judeo-Christian faith, believing in the power of prayer and the healing power of God's Holy Spirit. His hope is that this book of poems will inspire others to challenge and overcome a small part of their dyslexic learning disorder and help families in need.

Jeffrey Krueger was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1952. He grew up on the Northside of Milwaukee in the housing project known as Westlawn. After his parents divorced at the age of eleven, he moved into his grandmother's home in Wauwatosa, a suburb of Milwaukeeand graduated from Wauwatosa East High in 1970. Continuing his studies attending Layton School of Fine Arts, Milwaukee; University of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; spanning the years from 1970-1978.He has been involved in the entertainment business for over fifty years. After arriving back from the Woodstock festival in 1969, heproduced his first outdoor concert in 1970. In the late '70s and early '80s, he was lead singer of the musicgroup, the American Pilots, writing and producing the demo LP, Heart Notes. For a short time, he became an entertainment consultantin the Twin Cities area, producing performances of Chuck Berry, Eddie Rabbit, Savoy Brown, Traffic, and more. In 1983, he founded the country music festival WE Fest, Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, one of the largest festivals in the nation. For twenty-eight years, he was at the helm as president of the WE Fest until his semi-retirement in 2010. He produced shows of the who's who in country music.After rededicating his life to his Christian faith at a Promise Keepers event in Minneapolis in August 1997, he launched a Christian festival called Spirit Fest. It included six stages and over thirty musical acts and speakers per day, including artists Michael W. Smith, Amy Grant, Steven Curtis Chapman, and a host of others. He created a fundraiser called the Family Needs Fund, a nonprofit organization. It was designed and dedicated to assisting the crisis and circumstantial needs of families. For the last eighteen years, the charity has been active in helping families with their basic needs and continues today. In addition, he produced two live musical worship CDs of the Power of God Band, "Delivered" and"POG Live." Both CDs were sold, being utilized as a fundraiser to raise funds for families in need. All the proceeds were donated to the FNF charity. He shared his written testimony on how God saved his life, healing him from the addiction to drugs and his battle with depression. He witnessed the healing power of the Holy Spirit, guiding him throughout his life, and is reflected in some of his poems.During his retirement, he consulted a small Christian music festival, called Hope Fest, a fundraiser for the homeless, hungry, andlost. For the last thirty-six years, he has been a devoted husband, father, and grandfather to four children and nine grandchildren. He defeated cancer with God's healing power, became a full-time farmer at Hardwood Hills Vineyard, reclaimed wood-furnituremaker, and inventor of E-Z Stack, e-zstack.com. He began exploring writing to challenge himself in 2004 to help overcome his Dyslexic learning disorder. He finished his first writing, a screenplay called The Maestro, in 2009. He continued writing his autobiography, Cause-and-Effect: A Life's Journey. He started writing Dad's 100 Poems, Riddles, and Songs in 100 Days on September 20, 2021, finishing on December 29, 2021. His poems range from sometimes silly subjects a mouse, socks circus, balloons, clouds, to more serious reflections of his life, loss of a loved one, addiction, abuse, depression, divorce, also recording daily moments of the surroundings and habitat around him. Some commentary on certain subjects' freedom, sports, war, and the environment. Many of his poems are also a reflection of his Judeo-Christian faith, believing in the power of prayer and the healing power of God's Holy Spirit. Proceeds from the sale of Dad's 100 Poems, Riddles, and Songs in 100 Days are donated to the Family Needs Fund, a charity to help families in need.