Jim shares a moment with Howard Dean, Border's Books, Columbus, Ohio, October 20, 2004

Jim pays his respects to H.H. Patriarch Merkorious of Ethiopia, at Debre Medhanit Medhane Alem Cathedral, Columbus, Ohio. Savior's Day, 11-6-2004.

Jim and National Book Award winner Kevin Boyle compare notes about growing up in Detroit, O.S.U. Faculty Club, Columbus, Ohio, December 7, 2004

Jim spends a moment with Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Audubon State Park, Henderson, Kentucky, November 13, 2004

Jim and best-selling ekphrastic author Susan Vreeland, Columbus Academy of Design, January 10, 2005

Jim and National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation" Host, Neal Conan, at Ohio State University, January 19, 2005

Jim meets with former Congressman Tom Sawyer (D-OH) after a "Talk of the Nation" Broadcast at Ohio State University, January 19, 2005

Jim and former U.S. Senator and Astronaut John Glenn share a moment at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, February 9, 2005

Jim visits historian Michael Beschloss after his lecture, The Ohio State University campus, Columbus, Ohio, February 9, 2005

Jim greets Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell, Singletary Center for the Arts, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, March 25, 2005

Jim discusses racism with author and Black Panther leader Elaine Brown, Carrick Theater, Transylvania University, March 25, 2005

Jim meets up-and-coming Country Star and Song Writer, Tift Merritt, Lexington Public Library, Lexington, Kentucky, March 26, 2005

Jim with Pulitzer Prize-winning former Poet Laureate, Louis Gluck, after her reading at the Lexington (Kentucky) Public Library, March 26, 2005

Jim enjoys a moment with prize-winning poet, Dana Levin, Lexington (Kentucky) Public Library, March 26, 2005

Jim greets noted poet Donna Hilbert at the Lexington (Kentucky) Public Library, March 26, 2005

Jim meets Ann Telnaes, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, Lexington (Kentucky) Public Library, March 26, 2005