Posts Tagged ‘Birthday Memories’

I was in Horrem, Germany on my birthday last October.  I was there to improve my German, and I thought one way to practice German would be to tell stories.  So this is the story I told the Sisters in Horrem on my birthday.  Of course, I told it to them in German, but here’s…

I fondly remember the birthdays I celebrated as a child, especially in Tomahawk, Wis. They were always important in our family life. We usually had a party and could invite some friends and cousins to mark the special day. Here are two remembrances from those days: 1) Photo: September 14, 1944 when I was 3…

In 1996, Tad Kasper, a friend of the Salvatorian Sisters, gave me a SURPRISE BIRTHDAY. Tad took the sisters here in Phoenix to a famous restaurant in Tortilla Flats, Ariz. for my birthday. What made it famous? The entire walls were covered with dollar bills!! If you ever get to Arizona you might want to…

I was making my first week of a silent retreat and I knew I would have my birthday in silence during that week. When I came to supper on August 25th, in silence, what greeted me seemed to be a hundred glowing vigil lights placed all over the dining room! I had been remembered by…

Sister Debra discerned her religious vocation later in life after raising a family. For one of my birthdays my daughters went to “Build a Bear Workshop” at my request.  They made me the sweetest bear ever.  They named him Xzavier Coffee and I just loved him. At my ministry in Portage I work with residents…

Many friendships have been formed during years of participating in programs at St. Anthony’s Retreat Center in Marathon, Wis. Near my 70th birthday in August I stopped by the center with a friend. To my GREAT SURPRISE I walked into a room filled with many friends from near and far. “Happy Birthday!” was the cheerful…

August was usually the time that we had a family vacation with my grandparents at their cottage on Kelly Lake. Their neighbor next door had a large crop of the best sweetcorn! So it was a treat to just pick the ears that we wanted for our meal. Early August meant that the corn was…