seanessay.com I was born weeks into the space age. Optimism! Although Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World were trickling into our culture… but most people won’t read. It was Robert A. Heinlein, writing before television, who began putting prose, optimistic short stories, into that magazine with Norman Rockwell covers: The Saturday Evening Post. To a […]
I Saw the Awesome End of Oak Street
seanessay.com …Right or left at Oak Street, that’s the choice I make every day And I don’t know which takes more courage, The staying, or the running away… 1969 song by Roy Clark I saw a darn good feature film. I remember when girls wore cloth friendship bracelets, boys had long hair, and they all […]
My Life Was Changed By a Book
seanessay.com One of my favourite bloggers, Derek Sivers, did a piece on four books that changed his life. At the time, I could not clearly remember any, and in my comment I said so. Months later he send by mass email-out a URL for the same blog, and two others, and this time I had […]
Annotated Letters to My Establishment Politician
seanessay.com My old friend “Shawna” once joined the Green Party. Having a good head on her shoulders, the local Greens asked her to run for office. Many years later my friend saw my July piece on Writing to “Right Honourable” Folks, the blog where I said my Member of Parliament (MP) remembered my name… while […]
A Humble Letter from University
seanessay.com I’ve mentioned before a topic I won’t cover today: how the public has no idea as to how much the current administration is attacking higher education. “Flooding the zone” like a wave of Mongol hordes. Life has changed since the majority of US representatives decided they believed, hook, line and sinker, in “Trumpism.” It’s […]
Not Nolan’s Odyssey; Enjoying Odyssey-5
seanessay.com Here is a clip from an awesome piece about The Odyssey by Victor Hanson Davis, of Stanford University, in the Calgary Sun, January 9, 2021 … we keep mindlessly expanding the cancel culture… Our current cultural crisis is not from reading too much, but from not reading much of anything at all. Most of […]