I’m in Minnesota visiting family and then performing a wedding for two of my parishioners who hail from the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Today was our planned excursion to the Minnesota State Fair. I’d been lamenting my inability to attend the Rush concert in Maryland in September. What are the odds that they would be [...]
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