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Recycling Day: Searching for God and Underpants
I have decided Tuesday would be a good day to sift through the Archives here and recycle posts I’m particularly fond of. Because it’s my blog and I can. Also because writing something new and fascinating more than once a week is … Continue reading
Posted in Recycling Day
Tagged baptism, boomers, Catholic, christening, church, converts, God, grandchildren, grandkids, grandma, humor, Lutheran, recycling, religion
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Last One to Leave, Bring in the Dock
We are selling the family cabin this week, the last thing my father left us. He built it in 1968, with the same independence and drive he showed in everything else. He pored over plans for vacation homes, contracted the … Continue reading
Posted in Keeping Things Real
Tagged ambition, cabin, Catholic, dad, death, dock, family, grandkids, immigrants, lake, lifestyle, memories, mom, Northeast Minneapolis, Northern Minnesota, parents, school, tragedy, work
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Keep the Faith, Baby
We baptized Baby Lee last Sunday. By we I mean one Lutheran minister and the religious consortium that is now my family, including Lutherans, Pentecostals, Episcopalians, a Baptist, a Humanist, a few Jewish friends who showed up and one resigned … Continue reading
Holy Cripes
I was born, baptized and raised Catholic, and although I don’t show up at church very often, I haven’t heard that I was excommunicated or anything. The reason I seldom go to church is because I went to Catholic schools … Continue reading
Phone-It-In Confession
I imagine by now you’ve heard about the new $1.99 “Confession” iPhone app Catholics can get to keep track of their sins. I’m kind of Catholic; i.e., I’ve had plenty of first-hand experience with the confessional, although not for a … Continue reading