My Name is Joe

For the first time in his life, Joe hasn’t got a smart-assed answer. He’s always been hilarious, irreverent and even cocky—if a little unsure of himself—but this time he’s in “the B.T.—big trouble…” in college. His Dean of Students has told him he has to write the story of his life or face expulsion from school; all this just because he’s in love, and was making love with his girlfriend at the wrong time in the wrong place on campus. His punishment? Write your life or say bye-bye to school and whatever future that might bring. Joe’s had more life experience than most of his friends, and he isn’t reluctant to talk about it, either: “Check this out on yourself: Make a list of the top 100 things you want to learn… and the top 100 things you’ve had to learn. Think there’d be any overlap? Not much, I guarantee it.” Joe may have been through more than most, but he’s more than willing to take us along for the ride as he tells his story, the story of this transplant patient who nearly died as a young boy just after getting his new liver; and a brave young man who hasn’t been afraid of anything since. Except maybe this…