seanessay.com Truth comes out when one is flowing, free falling, like doing the Morning Pages of Julia Cameron. Today’s free fall writing, mind you, is not planned or structured. How can it be, when I am speed-writing as I go along? Writing Prompt- the fool on the hill I used to sing “the fool on […]
Some Students Agree With Apartheid
seanessay.com Headnote: Last week I linked to a memoir about women being segregated… You surely remember, directly or through history, when much of the world was against “apartheid,” the legal rigid separation of Black and White in the state of South Africa. In theory, in those years, you could have said people with a vested […]
Poisonous Fruits of an -Ism
seanessay.com By “ism” I don’t mean Islam—or perhaps I do, (and not all isms are bad)—I mean any belief system that approaches tyranny over the minds of man. There are lots of isms. My university had a weekly Marxist-Lenninist study group—yes, like in the Sheryl Crow song—where the students were as sincere as the Christian […]
Three Truths in JournalismVille that I Know for Sure
seanessay.com Student Karla Krahn, at the University of Calgary Student Union building, in the Women’s Collective and Resource Center, in a conversation with Sean, “Once you start accepting responsibility, there’s no going back.” … For 2025, I know only three things for sure: One: If laboratory rats can eat it, then it may cause cancer. […]
My Angry Comment Earned Her Reply
seanessay.com Three posts back, I documented madness: I noted that the number of measles cases is greater in the Province of Alberta than in the entire US of A, cases that could have been prevented by vaccine. …And this fine (October 3) morning a baby here, having contracted measles in utero, died shortly after birth. […]
I, Landlord
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 […]