Get a Room

Looking Back on a Year of Blogging

Today begins my second year of blogging. On May 6 of last year, Jason Stewart held my hand as we set up this blog. (He'd been after me to do it for 6 months! Thanks, man. You've really opened up a world that has helped my writing and caused me to think out loud. Most times, that is a good thing.) Stew got me set up on Typepad which I highly recommend for a blog site. It's got all these cool stats you can monitor every day. (And the stats keep you really vain about yourself, too! Sometmes vain, sometimes humbling depending on how often you check this blog!)

Here is a round up of stats for the year:

* I've written 63 posts in the past year. That's a little over one per week.

* You have sent 88 comments in response to what I've written. Who will be the 100th?

* The hits each week on this site are up to about 200 per week.

* Total number of hits for the year (drum roll, please): 9620 (I was hoping to get to 10K before the first year. See! I told you this was making me vain!) Who will be the 10,000th?

I sometimes share these stats with Pat Hood, our senior pastor, and he just laughs. He never looks at his stats. (I am sure he gets several hundred hits per day on his. It's all relative, isn't it?)

Anyway, thank you for looking at my blog for this year. It has been my honor to put some thoughts on the keyboard for you to see.

Coming in future "Get a Rooms":

-- Half Marathon review

-- A lesson in humility from CJ Mahaney and Dr. Luke's gospel

-- A new writing and video project Selma and I are working on

Here's to another year of blogging ... and, of course, counting!

New Marriage Blog Site

It's just getting started but I wanted you to know that, as of this week,  I am doing a blog for LifeWay as well. For now, it is called LifeWay Marriage Blog (we will find a better name for it!).

The LifeWay blog will be more bullets and quick points about marriage and how to make it better. Probably briefer than this one as I have a tendency to ramble on this one. (So you've noticed, huh?)

Please check it out and let me know (on comments "over there") what you think. Also, any suggestions are welcome for sure.

Hope you are well. We are out of town next week. Planning to catch up on some of that reading to the left (and more) but you'll hear about that some next week. You'll be impressed (or should be if you knew how little I knew about this stuff!) that I have another post already written and set to publish next week. So please check in. Later...