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Regarding dashes:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/566/1/ :
"Dash Dashes are used to set off or emphasize the content enclosed within dashes or the content that follows a dash. Dashes place more emphasis on this content than parentheses...Use a dash to set off an appositive phrase that already includes commas. An appositive is a word that adds explanatory or clarifying information to the noun that precedes it."
Here is an explanation as to why I am using double dashes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Rendering_dashes_on_computers :
"Typewriters and early computers have traditionally had only a limited character set, often having no key that produces a dash. In consequence, it became common to substitute the nearest available punctuation mark or symbol. Em dashes are often represented in British usage by a single hyphen-minus surrounded by spaces, or in American usage by two hyphen-minuses surrounded by spaces."
(also if you look to the beginning of the wiki article (at the top of the page) there is more explanation on dashes.
If you look at the owl punctuation link above you will see that they use dashes like this-with the information linked, no space. I do not like that look. I like this - better; and better than that I like -- most. But Joe, what do you like? If you look at the wiki article there are codes that make long dashes, but I do not know how to do that. I noticed that you are able to do that with you write: —Joe
you have a longer dash. I do not know how to do that without copying your long dash: —
I could go back and replace -- with — if you like that better, or eve with—if you like the attached look better, or if you prefer no dashes at all, I can put in ... or parenthesis. I think it was just the feeling I had with the information, punctuation has some rules but also it has some wiggle room. And lots of wiggle room if you prefer
Let me know what you think. I want it to be pleasing to you your eye!
PS, I googled https://www.google.com/search?q=punctuation+dash&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
but the wiki link is what I went with after I had checked the owl link to begin with. I did not look at the other google offers.