seanessay.com If I wanted to have profound thoughts then I would relax with fine British tea, perhaps by a fireplace. Instead I’m only having beer thoughts tonight, within a real English pub: I know it’s real because it has a blue heritage plaque inside. The music is like from my parent’s day. So nice. Pubs […]
Little By Little Does the Trick
seanessay.com If I were raising children (or myself) then I would surely point out the insight gained if the child (or myself) stopped to think of the power of Little By Little. Years ago I was a young soldier. This was after eight tracks and before compact discs, a time when a popular pre “video […]
Sharing the World With Orcs
seanessay.com I have never been to Russia, I can’t directly say whether Russians are ready for the responsibilities of democracy. What I can say is I saw a Youtube video where many people in a nice modern Russian city were interviewed on camera. To the question about Ukraine, “Do you feel guilty?” person after person, […]
Responsibility is Hard Here and in Russia
seanessay.com I hesitate to write about responsibility because I’ll get heck. I dimly recall a lunch hour volleyball intramural series among boys in their early teens. A few boys were earnestly trying to have proper teamwork; most boys were smacking the ball with their fists, sending it in a random direction, and laughing. I’m sure […]
Hasty Word What Might Have Been
seanessay.com After a new milestone of 125 posts, it’s time to catch up and ponder blog status. Catch up The trouble with having a self-imposed word limit is you leave stuff out. In my recent posts, here are two things I could have said: During my Schizophrenia piece, in my part on celebrities being harassed […]
Recruit School is Really Scary
seanessay.com (under a thousand words) One of my college classmates sobbed during her brief time in a British police academy. She later wondered, as many civilians do: Why are recruit classes for police and the armed forces so hard? When civilians ask “What time did they make you get up in the morning?” or “How […]