I’m shy. Sometimes I can hide it. Other times strangers just think I’m reserved/snobbish. Online, it means I lurk rather than comment–and that’s a shame. It’s ungracious. Out of their generosity people share their thoughts, info, themselves, and I respond with silence. When I do comment, I worry my well meant words will be misread…

Is God busy?I only askbecause this liturgy is so fast.No time for my hunger.No need for my prayer.The priest has it covered.No need for me here.

Still on the subject of eBooks, Jane at Dear Author started a discussion about the future of publishing and how readers can navigate the avalanche of eBooks to find treasures. She doesn’t have a definitive answer. But as always, the comments are worth a look for the cross-section of readers and authors. Someone (and I…

Depending on my mood, I can be a sucker for a survey. Today, I clicked through Biblio’s customer survey and was struck by their list of “books you buy”. They broke it down by genre, and last on the list was eBooks. I’m guessing they wanted to know whether they should sell eBooks, whether there’s…

I’m hovering by the letterbox (well, I am on week days–even I’m not deluded enough to think the postie will work extra days just to deliver my wishes) waiting for my copy of The Oxford Book of Short Poems. I borrowed it from a library a couple of years ago and could have cried when…