I'm not dead! Yay, me!
I have, however, been working non-stop for the last three weeks. This weekend is the first one I'm not spending in the office. So, okay, lame excuse. But at least I made the effort.
Moving on, I think my Google rating must be higher of late because there's been an uptick in the number of people contacting me to ask if I'm that Bronwyn Jones. The answer: Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
Since I started wandering this fine Internet of ours, I've received lots of email from old friends and strangers alike. I get email asking me how the book is going. (Fine, if you're inquiring about the one I'm reading.) I get email asking if I went to camp in Maine. (Nope.) I get email asking me about people I don't know. I get email from other Bronwyns who feel a Google kinship with me. I get email from people I've lost touch with over many years of moving way too much. And in one High Fidelity-esque week, I got email from three ex-boyfriends.
As a whole, I enjoy it. I think for all its enormity, the Internet somehow makes the world seem smaller, and I find that strangely comforting. Unfortunately, if you happen to be looking for a Bronwyn Jones who isn't me, the Internet does not have your back of late.
While I certainly do not want to discourage people from writing just to check if I'm the Bronwyn Jones who wrote that insightful article about the paranoiac perils of gun ownership (Hear, hear!) or the fictional, lesbian anchorwoman Bronwyn Jones or the late Australian filmmaker Bronwyn Jones (who I now feel a strange, research-lover's kinship with, even though she was apparently "blonde, willowy," possessed of a kind of "contained stillness" and a married to a guy called Ian Jones, which is my brother's name, so that's just weird), I want to say up front that I am none of these Bronwyns.
If it's late and you feel impulsive, by all means, drop me a line. But you might want to save yourself a little trouble first and check out my About page first. If nothing there looks familiar and you still feel the need to email me, that's fine, too. I still embrace the non-Disney-contrived small worldness of it all and the worst I'll do is forget to write back.
Now, go forth and Google.
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Read my article, Better Writing Through Design, on No. 242 of A List Apart.