Notes: A Great New Blog, About Writing When Happy
December 15, 2008
A friend passed me the URL for Boot Hall, written by a pseudonymous American expat in London with a wry take on the world. If you're familiar with the second best journalism book ever, Scoop, you'll recognize the pen name, Bill Boot, as the familiar form of William Boot, the protagonist of the story. In British Parlance, Boot Hall would be the ancestral country home of the Boot family. Give this blog a look!
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In my mind, it was crystal clear that last week's item, Writing When Happy, was a mea culpa for the fact that I've only written intermittently about my life of late. It is not that I am unhappy, it's just that life is normal--just the way I like it. At least one reader, my brother Steve, mistook the tone for melancholy. Frankly, I think a life with an occasional high point is exciting enough for me. And that's all I meant.