seanessay.com The template I use is called cenote, after those deep natural wells in Mexico. Of the six essays displayed on the page, I could set each opening paragraph to be the most striking graph within each piece, but I don’t, reasoning that long-time readers don’t want to be blog-baited that way. Other templates might […]
Sayonara Blog
seanessay.com My 175th post. A sign? And WordPress no longer has stats to show what country my visitors are from—grrr! A sign? I used to have a direct link on my desktop, now I have to jump through hoops to get into my own website. And new hoops—plural—to get my stats. Definitely a sign that […]
Have Social Skills, Will Travel
seanessay.com Derek Sivers’s blog has scores of comments for his recent Travelling Just for the People. (Instead for landmarks and tourist sights) A few of the commenters, no doubt representing many lurkers, lamented they don’t know how to meet the locals. “Not even in bars and cafes” says one, explaining he came from a more […]
Being Judged at the Imperial War Museum
seanessay.com …Fear of the very existence of honest Ukraine impelled violence, for a dictator’s lies always require violence to exist, just as violence always requires lies to exist…From ideas of Solzhenitsyn (Sean Crawford ) A young man asked me, “Do you work here?” (My rucksack and tourist hat were in a locker) I answered “No, but try […]
Flying Farm Boy Meets Old Man
seanessay.com Flying to London, I met an artist. Not on the plane, at the airport. A “young man from a farm” who is a singer-songwriter, who posted his songs on various social media, media whose names I can’t even remember—I’m too old to go there. His international audience likes his pieces about the humour in […]
Poor Traveller Meets Millionaire
seanessay.com There was a time when I mock-grouched, “Work colleagues can travel home to Asia and Africa, while I can’t even afford to fly to Saskatchewan.” (the next province over) Then a colleague at work, one year, flew to see the WWI battlefields in France. Well. So I decided to finally start budgeting too: Being […]