Short and Sweet

I read this morning on CBS's The Early Show website that the constant juggling of e-mails, text messages, twitter updates, and the like can actually cause a drain on a person's mental abilities. (Please note the irony that I read this information on a website.) Apparently, all this social technology (including this blog) is somehow impeding our abilities to think and interact with others, creating a generation of people who lack the appropriate social skills to read facial expressions, successfully interview for a job, or even maintain a friendship outside of a chat room.

Well, since I am attempting to publish a cookbook about special occasion entertaining (i.e. surrounding yourself with friends and family in a social situation devoid of computers and the like), I think it best that I keep today's blog post short and sweet. And in that way, we can both turn off our computers, step away from all this social technology for a moment, and spend some face-to-face time chatting with a good friend over a nice dinner al fresco.

Just don't get too comfortable with this no-blog-reading. I expect you back here tomorrow to read the next installment of The Trials and Tribulations of a Wannabe Author.