Just quick update post:

• The blog has a new look. I'd love to hear your comments. I think it's a little easier on the eyes. Not sure how I feel about the pink, though 
• The April newsletter went out Wednesday. If you didn't get one, you can read it here. (Sign up in that blue box on the site, or send me a note, if you'd like to get the next one.)
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On a personal note: Sunday is my anniversary. Jon and I married eighteen years ago. It has gone by SO fast. Jon figured out in 2000 that if you add the numbers for the date of our anniversary, you get the number of years we've been married. (April 4, 2010 means 4+4+10=18) Runs ten-ish miles every Saturday morning, even when its frigid cold. He has a deep, life-governing faith. He is a tremendous father and example. I cannot communicate what he means to me and he becomes more precious to me each passing day. What a gift God gave me in Jon! 

Now I'm taking the rest of this weekend off!

Celebrate the hope and joy that is the resurrection. Remember, not matter how things look right now… Sunday's coming!

What am I writing? – I started a new book draft this week! Yay! It feel so good to be writing new stuff once again. I'll post the chapter once I get it tweaked a little. The August newsletter went out this week. If you didn't get one, you can read it here, and sign-up for future ones using that form at the right. What have I learned? Nerdy things about the site here, and my newsletter manager- Vertical Response. I won't bore you with the details.

  What am I reading? Where Did I Leave My Glasses? about normal memory loss, partly because learning, memory and brain function fascinate me, partly for research purposes for Doug's book. It's a fun read, but still incorporates the latest research in cognitive neuroscience (without making it sound that heavy and boring). Next week… a month of fiction begins!

What has God taught me? We're doing Lifeway's Boomerang Express VBS this week, and the tagline is "It all comes back to Jesus". It does. In the end, nothing else matters. I told the kids Wednesday night, that we make dozens of decisions every day- what to eat for breakfast, which shirt to wear – and most of those decisions don't matter at all, but what we decide to do with the facts about Jesus Christ… that matters for all eternity. Sometimes we get so familiar with the gospel, it loses its wonder. It's been great to see the fresh unabashed enthusiasm the kids have for Jesus. It's definitely given me a boost.