seanessay.com I am a landlord. I smiled as Chief Engineer Pelia on the starship Enterprise said, “I still have a bunker in Vermont, where I used to live, in case this no-money-socialist-utopia thing turns out to be a fad.” No landlords on Star Trek. … At age 17, escaping to the big city on my […]
Auntie Flo and Younger Lover
At drop-in Free Fall Writing we chuckled at our prompts Auntie Flo and younger lover. People were scandalized as I read aloud. … My Auntie Flora was a character, a dumb blond although her hair was dark. I remember she once telephoned my mother crying that she had done her income tax five times, and […]
About Old Vaccines Being Awful
seanessay.com The Straight Dope dug up memorable public service vaccine cartoons, … I like how folks back in my home town will say collar bone, and shoulder blade. Leave it to the aloof professionals to say clavicle and scapula. From boyhood, I remember well a public service television commercial, animated, with diseases personified, urging us […]
A Secret Garden to Prove Them Wrong
Free Fall Writing Prompt- Prove them wrong At my age, complete with straw fedora, I really shouldn’t be worried about “proving them wrong.” But of course, when I am half consciously whooshing my car along highway 9, that can be one of the things I think about. It’s a human thing. A young human thing. […]
A University Class as an Oasis in the Desert
seanessay.com (Having passed the 300 essays mark, I’m entitled to do one about me) …It’s up to you, oh future business-world person, what you learn in university,… When I was to become a university student, over the summer before I started, I had to go to the education building and see Sylvia. “You need two […]
Man, Yankees Have a Different Culture
seanessay.com Recently I thought, “Man, Yankee culture is sure different from ours!” Does that make any sense to you? I mean, put magic angel wings, or something, on a movie camera and fly it across the international border —heading south, of course— and except for the farms being of a different size (stupid government!) there […]