Posts from — April 2008

Today I have an interview with my longtime friend and fellow writer, Janine Donoho, whose first book is out and published under the pseudonym Jessie Jayne Smith. Janine and I met in New Orleans back in 1991 when she was the co-coordinator of the RWA National Conference, and I was an attendee who had my conference fee covered by doing calligraphy name tents for all the speakers. We’ve been great friends ever since as we’ve shared the ups and downs of the writing life and have tried to keep each other sane in the process.

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Who doesn’t love a good optical illusion? My friend Priscilla Maine sent me an email with a link and an excerpt from an article about the spinning silhouette of a nude woman. A portion of the email said the following:

“This woman can make you ignore phone calls, small fires, texts from a lover, chocolate, the cold. And she won’t let you go until you realize you just wasted 20 minutes trying to change her spin direction, with your brain.”

 Here she is, from an editor’s blog at the Scientific American:

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