I was surprised to know that a friend of mine leads a dichotomous bloglife. He has a blog for his personal writings and another for his "serious stuff." I never have this kind of separated life -- simply because in the women's movement, we say that "the personal is political." So whether I write about what is happening to me personally or about the society I am in, it is still me talking, not another person.
But maybe he has a purpose. Perhaps someday, he plants to publish his writings and through that categorization of his writings, it would be easy to compile them into two books.
Yet, when we dichotomize, are we not saying that life could have this kind of separation? I perceive life as one seamless thread. Whether knots occur now and then, it is still one and the same life I have. I breathe the same air whether I am writing short stories or essays. And when I write poetry, then that is still me - perhaps wanting to get away from the overly-rational life of politics. But who says that poems cannot be political, or short stories for that matter?
I told a friend, I write short stories when essays contain too much truth that are too blunt for the authorities to take.
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