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Beloved Italian down but not out

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Beloved Italian down but not out

FINDS SECOND-WIND CAREER AT AGE 65
A hand-waving and exuberant Catholic, Will DeSanto is best known for two things: joyful mischief and faithful prayer. Though he’s a beloved “people person” who loves to encourage others, his …

Confident exec finds toughest job at home

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A former Pillsbury executive, Barb Benetti had always been educated, capable and self-assured. But when “this little creature” — her first child — came along, she felt clueless and undone.
“I used to manage 20 people …

A Dog’s View of Suffering

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Having been miraculously healed himself, John wondered whether God was being selective or just silent. Then one day, while playing with their dog Cosley, he saw an analogy which has helped them approach Nancy’s chronic …

RN measures love for the homeless in feet

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When you’re a survivor on city streets, a nasty little pebble can really ruin your day. In fact, if it’s beneath cracked and numb feet in the cold or rain, it often leads to bloody …

Voice nearly gone, his life still speaks

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After a lifetime of passionate public speaking, former Twin Cities priest Terry Dosh would rather lose an arm or a leg than his voice. Yet this is the prized tool being stripped from him through …

Perky 95-year-old “instigator” ages well

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Though depression knocks at the door for many in dwindling Lake Lillian, Minnesota, where businesses and farms close regularly, feisty, faith-filled reformer and retired turkey farmer Gladys Bjur will have none of it.
At 95, Bjur …

Two grandmas and a gangster

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A former gang leader from Chicago’s Southside, Ardest said, “My heart was so hardened, I sat in jail and rolled marijuana joints with pages of a Bible. As a gangster, you can’t trust anyone. Metro …

Geek with personality is a favorite with kids

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What possessed a computer technologist making well over $50K at an investment firm to leave it for a $15K job working with inner-city kids?
That’s what I asked Golden Valley, MN native Matt Christenson, 42, a …

Music a Great Resilience Tool to Cope with Life’s Harshest Realities!

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It’s long been said that music is mind medicine. Research shows that listening to music can reduce anxiety, depression, blood pressure, and pain as well as improve sleep quality, mood, memory, increase some cognitive functions, enhance learning and concentration, and ward off the effects of brain aging.