seanessay.com The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings RLS—Robert Louis Stevenson To live, how amazing! Sean Crawford A Housewife Time Traveled As for amazing, you may recall that in the major motion picture, Peggy Sue Got Married, she is a wife and […]
A Family Living History Lesson
seanessay.com My dear mother was born in Vancouver, to a deaf and mute father, and a deaf and blind mother. Two younger siblings. For a while, as a teenager, I lived in Grandma’s basement suite. We talked by the manual alphabet spelling on her hand, where the five finger tips were the five vowels. I […]
A Citizen’s Parody Comedy Conduit Post
seanessay.com Today I feel like posting a comical conduit post. Remember when the Internet was new? When newspapers would run reviews of web sites for people to look at? Soon blogs appeared that might be divided into two types: destination blogs, such as my essays, and conduit blogs, where those who found the site were […]
A Reservoir of Racism: The Reckoning
seanessay.com David Frum once hesitated when asked a question. A former White House staffer, Frum explained that his answer, once given, would then seem so obvious that Frum would look stupid for “stating the obvious.” I forget the specific question to Frum, but today I face a similar plight regarding racism. Such is the lot […]
When a Lost Heart Returns at Christmas
I wasn’t going to write today, until I saw a BBC news story. So sad. A mother disappeared, and now her children are teenagers, but of course if she wanted to show up with no questions asked, it would be at Christmas, so they set her a place, and it tears their hearts. The most […]
Even Communists Crave Christmas Carols
seanessay.com Enjoying the Yuletide, I once spent three whole days listening to a local rock station which every December becomes “your Christmas music station.” That was a big mistake, for amongst the overplayed tawdry tinsel songs were… no Christmas carols at all. I clued in: That nice station, in our secular society, has a policy […]