This week’s topic: random facts about Jon.

[+] His foreign language in high school was Scots-Gaelic. Seriously. His teacher was at our wedding. He even did some study abroad in college on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.

[+] He loves jazz. I got him a membership in the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society for his birthday which is something he can do on his own… because I hate jazz. Oh yes… I also got him a CD of some jazz I could mildly stand and let him listen to it in the car on the way back to northern California.

[+] He is about 9 inches taller than me. I’m 5’1″… on a bad hair day. He’s 5’10”. He dwarfs me in pictures.

[+] He is an extrovert. About 80% of clergy are introverts so he’s the exception. I’m an introvert so before we had Daniel, we used to go to events in separate cars so I could leave when I was overstimulated.

[+] When he is on a long phone call, he micro-folds pieces of paper. I’ll find pieces of paper folded into really tight squares around the house. I need to get him an origami book or something.

[+] He is a Dodger fan. Don’t look at me! I don’t understand it either. I mean, it works this year when his team isn’t “cellar-dwelling” but usually, they’re sucktastic at best!

[+] He is an Ole. Translation: he is a graduate of St. Olaf College in Minnesota. Um Ya Ya! Like most Oles, he studied abroad. (Seriously, the first question I ask people when I find out that they’re an Ole is where they studied abroad or will be studying.)

Now go see Becky and what everyone else shared.