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Make it With Love Several years ago, I taught our daughter, Annie, to make lasagna. It was some wonderful father-daughter time spent together in her kitchen. I made one pan as an example to show and guide her, while she made a pan of her own. Annie was concerned with the amount of time it was taking. I expressed the importance of taking the time to do it right. No shortcuts; don’t rush it. “Always make your lasagna with love, and people will love your lasagna,” I told her. We baked, then ate her lasagna for dinner. The meal was delicious; I was proud of her and told her so. The following day, we took my pan of unbaked lasagna and baking directions to the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Winona, Minnesota, to give it to the priests. Father Jonathan answered the door, thanking us for the gift. He seemed very appreciative, and that made us feel pretty darn good. Several weeks later, I was back at home in Silver Bay. It was nearing the end of the year, and I was behind schedule on our home remodeling project. I’d been working on our master bedroom, framing the closets. (Just the Other Day cont’d on pg 5)
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(Just the Other Day con’t Winona.” from pg 1)
As usual, I was secondguessing my plan. I had intended to use a standard door on Melissa’s closet and had already purchased the door. However, changing to a pocket door would give us much better use of the wall space just outside her closet.
They had invited six priests and the bishop for Christmas Eve dinner. He said, “You made my night easy. I only had to put the lasagna in the oven, get the salad and some veggies, and we had a wonderful meal to enjoy. Everyone loved your lasagna.” He asked me to thank I said to myself, “If I Annie and Melissa, as change to the pocket well, and pass along his door, it will require a trip wishes for a happy and to Duluth, which is 150 blessed New Year to miles, round trip. That my family. I thanked him would consume the for his call and his nice majority of the day, put- words, then wished him ting me further behind a Happy New Year. schedule. If I used the standard door, I could Wow! Six priests AND keep working, but every the bishop all liked my time that door swings lasagna? I’ve had some into wasted wall space nice compliments on my that had to be left avail- cooking before, but cerable for the door to tainly no higher praise open, I will curse myself than this! The call made for not taking the time my day! to get the pocket door. I was pretty smitten Ugh!” with myself as I recalled I was scratching my telling Annie, “Always head, frustrated about make your lasagna with what to do. I wanted love, and people will to pull my hair out and love your lasagna.” My scream or run away, words of wisdom to her: but I don’t really have “It’s important to take enough hair to do that your time; do it right. No anymore! Screamshort cuts, don’t rush it.” ing never helps; it just causes our dog to look I looked at my dog at me like I need thera- June, “You know what? py. Running away won’t I am going to Duluth to get that pocket door. Do help because I have a you want to ride along?” big hole in my tennis shoe. Snow would get inside my shoe; then my feet would be wet and cold and.... Ugh! Why didn’t I think of this before? The phone ringing disrupted my anguish. The problem is, I don’t happen to keep a 28” pocket door frame on hand, and it has to be installed before hanging the drywall. A standard door just requires a rough opening for the door to be installed later.
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He called to thank me once again for the lasagna and let me know there was too much for just the two priests who lived in their house. So he put the lasagna in the freezer, waiting until they had enough priests together to bake the lasagna.
The call was from area code 507. Yesterday, I called my agent in Winona with an insurance question. She was going to get the answer and call me back. It was a good thing she called now, as I needed a break from this indecisiveness that was tormenting me. I answered the call, “Hello, this is Tom.” Much to my surprise, Betty didn’t sound like Betty at all. Instead, it was a man’s voice. “Hello, Tom,” he said. “This is Monsignor Colletti, from Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, in
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