seanessay.com Written During Free Fall Friday … Prompt- please please please be quiet “I wish,” said Jimmy the nerd, “that our textbooks would have repetition, because then I would do better on the test.” We were in the school library, keeping our voices low. I shot him a sharp glance—everybody knew Jimmy got the best […]
Passing Milestone 150 amidst Orcs and social media
seanessay.com I’ve driven well past my 150 milestone of blog posts, a white stone that was supposed to signal a “checkpoint time” to see how I was doing. My new goal has been to reduce my number of posts so as to focus on writing fiction instead— as I told my writer’s support group. That […]
Free Fall Anticipation of Retirement
seanessay.com They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. Lawrence Binyon Inscribed at the Scottish National War Memorial I was there, at the memorial in Edinburgh, back […]
Now I Understand Russian Cattle
seanessay.com Of course the Russians themselves would be the best ones to understand Russians. Especially if they have escaped their country-wide jail long enough drop their mental defences and safely reflect. This week I heard a Russian professor on the CBC, who plans to go back when it is safe, and I saw an excellent […]
Children see Statues, the Pope sees Sex
seanessay.com Having grown up back west I could identify with a TV episode of Reba, the country singer, who has a daughter in school. The school principal —a woman, since this is the 21st century— tells Reba something like, “In this school we don’t believe sex exists.” Reba replies, “How’s that working out for you?” […]
Free Fall in Ukraine
seanessay.com A fellow writer had no idea civilians refer to the Russian soldiers as Orcs. Ukraine must be on my mind, because in Free Fall Friday class I did two fiction pieces about civil engineers there, and then a parent’s musing. Here’s the musing. Prompt- shadows There is a shadow on my land. When I […]