(taped by phone 01/02/07)

BIO: Anna is the President of Cornerstone Media, Inc., in Santa Rosa, California. Anna is an inspiring workshop and youth rally speaker, youth ministry training consultant, and a disc jockey. She was M.C. of the catechetical sessions for 77,000 young people at Mile High Stadium in Denver for World Youth Day. She has recently written Keys to Happiness. Anna received the National Catholic Youth Ministry award in 2006. More here.

QUOTE TO NOTE: (I’m involved in Catholic youth ministry because) I feel its my responsibility with the life I have been given. . . I’ve been blessed with people in my life who loved me and believed in me, and I know that I would have called that (experience) ministry.

OBSCURE FACTOID: Anna does not always know what song will be a hit.  Once, I sat with her in a country-western karaoke bar on Saint Patrick’s Day in Caldwell, Idaho.  We left after this one angry young woman sang what we both thought was the most awful song we had heard in recent memory.  Two weeks later, we were stunned to see it began climbing the pop charts.  That song??  Goodbye, Earl by the Dixie Chicks.

BEHIND THE SCENES:  Seriously, nothing in this life can be more painful than editing your own voice when it is placed alongside the professional dj’s.  Also, there is some ambient ambulance wailing.  Sigh, think I’ll head back to Caldwell. . .

BLOG REFLECTION: can be read here for Jan. 24.