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While visiting the priest, we watched the caged birds mate as we sat in the room for tea and cake was served. My mother did try not to laugh and failed so loud. I looked for proof the birds were both of different gender As we sat in the room for tea and cake was served the mating birds both fell off of their stick and died . The priest began to cry so bad, that we should leave. My mother...

ALICE HORNBAKER SHOW ON AIR WMKV 89.3 FM WMKFM.ORG 12-12-11 As promised last week this week I would like to repeat the second of my two annual and most favorite Christmas stories of my life. On Dec. 5 I told you about a Christmas in 1937 during The Great Depression and a mother’s love of her three little girls. Today’s story took place in Minneapolis,...

Growing up in a very small town of about 800 people, your religion was part of your profile. Mine happened to be Catholic – and still is. However, a few years ago, I began to ask a lot of questions. Being a catechist since the age of sixteen, a liturgy committee member for five years, and so on; you would have thought that I knew what my ‘role’ was. Call it an early onset of a midlife...

(This can also be found on www.nesschesters.wordpress.com - you can click "follow" if you wish to follow future blogs. The theme of my blogs are living life to the fullest) >>>>>>> It has now been officially almost a year and a half since my accident. A journey of a lifetime, and I feel so very blessed to have experienced it. There were moments where I will be marked forever. However, I...

I have had many phone calls and good wishes over the past few weeks about an incident that changed our lives. We had all been looking forward to the trip with anticipation for a year. The trip happened really because we lost 2 of our grandparents suddenly in 2007 and my mom wanted to create a magical moment for her entire family. So 11 of us (5 kids) and 6 adults headed on the journey of a...