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 […]
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 […]