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Saw this on Spirit Daily the other night. It's an article from the National Catholic Register talking about six questions that "successful dioceses all answer 'yes'" to.

Read the article and see how your diocese stacks up. The article talks about how important eucharistic adoration is to vocations, and how being invited by a priest to consider the priesthood plays a big factor as well.

Read Six habits of highly effective dioceses at Catholic Online

Moving the blog to a new host, so there could be some stuff not working. Just a warning...

Mary was surprised I had never "walked for life" before, but Sunday we walked in the annual pro-life march sponsored by the Grand Traverse Area Right to Life. We loaded up the boys covered with blankets in the stroller, and we set off on the 1/2 hour march through downtown Traverse City with around 100 others. Claire walked almost the entire way herself! Only one guy yelled at us out of his car window, so that was nice.

It's for a great and important cause so we were glad to participate!

Read Marching for the unborn in the Record Eagle

Visit Grand Traverse Area Right to Life for more info

WOW! After experimenting with various types of personal websites for years, I managed to stay with this version for a whole year!

In 2007 look for...

• more photos...
• more links...
• more useless knowledge...
• and more craziness!

As always you can post comments if you wish or send me any cool stuff you think I should post here. Thanks for visiting!

One of our clients, Wings of Wonder, has been in the news over the past year with many successful releases of injured and rehabilitated birds of prey. The latest is another Bald Eagle and you can read about the story below.

Read Bald eagle ready to take flight again in the Record Eagle

Rebecca Lessard really does some amazing work on these birds, to learn more about her and her mission, visit www.wingsofwonder.org.

Aunt Eva is my Great Aunt, she is the sister of my Grandpa Herbert Swenson (my mom's dad). Before you say, huh?, I tried writing it a few different ways and they all seemed confusing, so I went with that.

Now if you aren't totally confused, you can pretend to be shocked that myself and my kids have some Swedish heritage as we all tan so well and aren't white as ghosts (heavy sarcasm).

Yes, I am a stubborn Swede and proud of it.

Photo and article from the Leelanau Enterprise

Helped the Great Lakes Maritime Academy get this movie onto YouTube and Google Video to help promote their maritime college. It's always good to help someone. Anyway, check it out and see what they are all about!

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