I love Jodi. She's my best friend. She's cooler than the other side of the potato chip. She's the sweetness of my life. She's the wind beneath my not too spicy buffalo wings. She's the song that keeps playing in my head. It's a great song. Has violins, french horn, a diggery doo, two kazoos, three banjos, a comb wrapped in wax paper, John Candy, Chris Farley and John Belushi playing claves, a shaker and cow bell, a tore up guild guitar, a hofner bass, some bongos, timpani, singing chimpanzee,...

Well friends, just returned from Perry, Georgia. Was presenting at the Diocese of Savannah's ONE IN THE SPIRIT celebration. Smack dab on the feast of Pentecost, the birthday of the Church. Chuck Frost, servant extraordinaire and friend of God, invited me to present during the youth track. Chuck's wife, Julie, and their two sons, Joshua and Jonah, were there. Lifelong advocate for youth, Sherrie, and her son, Joshua were there. I met Sherrie's older son, Tyler, about three years before. Over 3...

Chris Gosselin.

Son of Stephanie and Ken; guitar player, piano player, music minister, student, friend of Lauren and many others, dreamer, servant, and much more.

I met Chris via Jim Flanagan, friend and co-international man of danger. Chris had met Bryan Lorentz, and at some point in time, I received an email from him with a very strange question, "Jesse, I wonder if you would consider let...

Bryan Lorentz, one of the many and cool sons of Kathy and David; beloved of Missy and visa versa; welcomer of everyone and excluder of no one; student, singer, guitarist, traveler, seeker, and friend of Jesus the non-violent peacemaking holy one. A few years ago, Bryan asks me, "Jesse, would you consider letting me intern for you this summer?" I answered, "What's an intern?" Now I remember APeX Ministries ...

May 19th. The year 2006. Captain's Log. I've been asking Spock to ask the computer to compute to the last digit of pi, but alas, Spock hasn't been himself since his recent rescue from the Doomsday Machine.

Dude, that was random!

Hey, I'm home until June 3rd. I'm delirious with joy. Just some reflections of my past visit to OHIO! Arrived at noon, AKRON/CANTON airport. There was my friend, Cindee Case, "She Who Walks With and For Young People" in the church. I was in Ohi...

Right after the concert at St. Alphonsus, in Peterborough, Kenny and I jumped in the van with Carl Moher, beloved of Ruthie, and off to London, Ontario, at least a three hour drive. I called "shotgun" for Kenny so that I could totally snooze. He must have asked Carl over twenty thousand questions to keep each other awake. I supervised....zzzzz. We made it London around 2:30AM or so....checked into the hotel and tried to catch some sleep. Jim Donovan would be picking us up in a few h...

 Wednesday, May 3rd...arrived at the Toronto International airport, greeted by St. Alphonsus' own Ruthie and Fr. Paul! Grand welcome, smiles, hugs and high fives. We head over to the other terminal to wait for Kenny Penalver's flight arrival. 40 minutes later, viola! Jump in the car and start our 1.5 hour drive to Peterbo...

Lord have mercy. From five days in Windsor to two in Minnesota. Fly into St. Paul Minneapolis International airport pretty late....jump into my rental car and head over to the hotel for some greatly needed rest. I've got a confirmation retreat at St. Michael's in Stillwater...St. Croix Valley Faith Formation is a group of parishes joining resources to make a difference in the lives of young people. Mary McLaren has invited me to speak to a huge number of high school students preparing for con...

Just spent five full days with the Church in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Got to meet Barry and Louise, Mary, Ange, Joe, and Jersey. Also met Heidi in spirit. Met Larry and Phyllis. On monday morning, went to CATHOLIC CENTRAL HIGH, a little over 1000 students; HUGE ENERGY...then over to ASSUMPTION HIGH SCHOOL for about 800 students...WILD AND WACKY PARTICIPATION; then the staff of ST THOMAS OF VILLANOVA HIGH for about 65 adults. Tuesday went to ST ANNE HIGH for 350...THE ROOF, THE ROOF, THE ROOF...

On April 22nd, I drove past the College of Notre Dame in Indiana, and over to Marian High School for the Diocese of Fort Wayne/South Bend FAITH FEST. Got to meet Dan, Kyle and PJ, the people behind the popple. They are a power-trio of popple-fication, speaking, singing, instructing others in the light of faith. Check out their website at www.popell.us and witness an amazing video clip that I like to call a "sock-u-mentary."

The theme of the...