seanessay.com Social Media Kills. I’d like this slogan on a sweat shirt, especially after that school teacher was beheaded in France. It turns out this week that one of his students, who wasn’t even in class that day of his alleged offence, lied to her father, who then, I suspect, lied on social media—It’s a […]
Light Hearted Free Fall
seanessay.com A recent piece (Feb 20) explored a grim concept. Happy ending, but grim. So let’s have some light hearted writing from Friday Free Fall. You might like imagining a “laugh track” of my peers, on a fine morning, laughing as I read aloud. (1,070 words) prompt- why wait Every day I would see Mrs. […]
Puritan Proposes Hanging Out
seanessay.com The Peanuts cartoons had an arc where Peppermint Patty (struggles in school) is trying to teach Monica (wears glasses and reads) how to “hang out” at the mall: Patty demonstrates leaning on the wall looking sleepy eyed. Monica doesn’t get it. Back when I was more uptight I shared a duplex—we chose the place […]
Stress Makes Me Stupid
seanessay.com I know one thing for sure: Stress makes me stupid… As I write this, it is past three a.m., “the hour of the wolf” and I can’t sleep. Here’s the thing: A few years ago, for a week or two, I found myself under great stress. Self imposed, really, but stress nonetheless. And when […]
Cute Time and Space
seanessay.com In my Doctor Who Children’s Annual there was a drawing of Albert Einstein within a sidebar to explain space and time. The box read, (from memory) “There can be no space without time; there can be no time without space.” So every location is in space-time. I find it liberating to give respect to […]
Quotations for Radical Muslims
seanessay.com In the news today (Feb 8) the body of an elderly Syrian archeologist has been found. He was beheaded by extremists for not telling them where “idolatrous” treasures were hidden. I suspect that while the destruction of pre-Muslim stone pillars was for ideology, the pursuit of treasure was for a more worldly reason. As […]