What Really is a Blog?

A couple of weeks ago my daughter Susan, Vice President of Nanny Poppinz asked me to blog for their website. She had been doing it but with the company growing in leaps and bounds she needed help. Fine but what exactly is blogging? This is NOT a silly question if you are in my age group which is somewhere between not remembering The Great Depression and remembering who Charlie Chan is. My dog's name was Trigger. I asked my best friend if she knew what blogging was and her answer was that it had something to do with computers. I got out my trusty dictionary and you know what, you can't look up a new word in an old dictionary. What is it with these new words? Who gets to decide to make up new words?

Then I started getting advice about what to blog about. My daughter sent articles from the Washington Post. My husband said to keep it about families, children, parents. After all it is for the Nanny Poppinz website! Does that mean I can't get rid of my angst about Brett Favre? Apparently I should be writing about topics that will cause discussion. Hopefully I will be able to do that. This should be fun.