The Great Intermission

Albert Peter Krueger was born in the border town of McAllen Texas, on May 2, 1948.

Elementary school years were experienced in Jackson, Michigan, and in 1958, the family moved

to Flagstaff, Arizona when Harold, his father, was transferred to manage a new store opening.

When the old company was purchased by a new company, the old managers were let go. At that

time, Mr. and Mrs. Krueger took their savings and purchased a franchise 60 miles down the road

to the east in Winslow, Arizona. And so it was the Albert graduated from Winslow High School

in 1966. 50 years later he published the first version of The Great Intermission, under the title

From the Fords of the Jordan to the Plain of Shinar.

Discontinuities are the hallmark of Albert's journey through his 3/4 century pilgrimage. He

began his undergraduate years at the University of Arizona as an astronomy major, changing to

Mathematics after two years. The 60s had a profound effect on him, and he left college in 1971

to learn the retail trade in the family business in Winslow. When the parent company of the

franchise began to disintegrate, he and his father parted ways, with Albert returning to Tucson to

complete a degree in Philosophy.

Albert married his first wife, Katherine, in Tucson just before heading to seminary in

Berkeley, California. They have two grown children, Sam and Anaiah, who are happily pursuing

their chosen professions. The marriage ended in 2012.

Albert received the Master of Divinity degree from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific,

an Episcopal Church seminary, in 1980. He was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in

Walla Walla, Washington on December 2, 1981. After serving congregations in Eastern

Washington and in west central Oregon and the greater Portland area, Father Albert retired in

2013. He is now married to his lovely wife Diana and lives in Phoenix, Arizona. He and his wife

attend Dream City Church in north Phoenix.