I’m back from my trip to Ohio! I want to thank a few people that made the trip such an enjoyable time:

Mark and Gretchen Nelson, owners of Nelson Fine Art and Gifts ^[1] and Catholic to the Max ^[2] (if you need any Catholic art or gifts, you’ll find it there). Our family stayed with them in Steubenville a few days, and as always they were gracious hosts.

Vito Carchedi, chairman of the Society of St. John Chrysostom Youngstown Chapter ^[3], who invited me to speak to their group last Tuesday. The Society is a great group with wonderful people, and I enjoyed meeting Vito, Richard Mattiussi, Fr. George Gage, Raymond Nakely and all the fine folks there. Hopefully my talk helped in the goal that we all “might be one” someday.

Matt Swaim, Brian Patrick, Anna Mitchell and everyone at The Son Rise Morning Show ^[4], who had me as an in-studio guest on Friday. It was wonderful to finally meet them after numerous phone interviews over the past year. I also was able to meet Rich Leonardi, who runs the wonderful blog Ten Reasons ^[5]. Rich and I have corresponded for years via email and blogs, but haven’t been able to meet in person until we happened to be interviewed back-to-back on Son Rise.

Now, back to blogging!