I posted an entry in Performancing yesterday and forgot to share it here. Here’s an excerpt of my entry, “How to Explain Blogging to the Old Folks”:

Last week, my mother’s two old aunts came over for lunch. The elder of them was so old; she walks by shuffling her feet forward like a Chinese granny with lotus feet and the younger of them lost all her teeth about a decade ago. I was in the middle of blogging when they arrived so I didn’t get to welcome them. I was summoned by my mother when it was time for lunch and I had to go through the perfunctory greetings between relatives — you know how it goes. My mom told them I was working as a writer and Lotus-feet Granny smiled widely and detailed about her stint as a journalist (way before World War II). She asked me what subjects I write and for what newspaper I was working for. I shared a look with my mother in knowledge that it will be a hard-time trying to explain blogging to my ancient grannies.

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And Katharine, I had a long reply written to your last email but there was a sudden blackout in my place so everything went poof. I’ll type it out again tomorrow and send you my reply!