An interesting post by Nat Hentoff, How Much Digital Reading Stays inside You?, appeared recently on the Cato Institute's website. Hentoff ruminates on the findings of Naomi S. Barron that reading on digital devices encourages skimming rather than an in-depth focus on the text. Fine for reading fiction, but what about processing and absorbing, for example, a textbook?

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Don't panic! I'm still working on Say Yes, even though the progress meter for it is gone. I'm searching for a solution, promise.

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Went to see Hercules last night with my son. Am I the only person on God's Green Earth to be disappointed because Atalanta was part of Hercules' gang?

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A couple of weeks ago, I announced on Facebook that this website would be undergoing changes and might be down. As you can see, no changes have actually been made. We were supposed to switch over to another web hosting service, but things did not work out the way they were supposed to. So, we're still here. 

I won't say "bummer." Weebly is a great service, but there are some limitations, including not being able to post book excerpts that contain, er, adult material (known in the rest of the world as s-e-x).

When I first began to write Levi's story, Say Yes, I thought about serializing it chapter by chapter on this blog. Alas! It contains that *ahem* adult material Weebly forbids, so I'll just have to find something else to do with this one. 

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So, the funny of the week. Richard and I have had a bit of a go-around over references. I usually refer to stories by their titles (The Enemy Within or TEW) or by the main characters (Bobby and Indigo's story). Richard says I have to change that because that's not the way he thinks of them. Here are his suggestions:

The Prophecy = Maya's a$$
Light's Bane = The sweater book 
The Enemy Within = The underwear fight scene
Tempered = Hawthorne *dreamy sigh*
Say Yes = *narrowed eyes* 

The green-eyed monster is behind the references for LB and SY. Richard has been pining for me to make him a sweater for a couple of years now, and he's not fond of Levi. (Oddly enough, Levi is the only male character I've written to date that Richard doesn't like.) The rest are, uh, self-explanatory. Probably.

I think Hawthorne put it best when she said, "Men. Rational talk fails and beheading is frowned upon by my kin."