seanessay.com During this mid-winter of our discontent, we can make things bright by the sun of books. Since starting this blog, for seven books I have essayed, ofttimes as a chance to comment on our world stage where methinks we play the part of witness. Having little regard for SEO, Search Engine Optimization, I seldom […]
If Zeus Blasts My Drinking Buddy…
seanessay.com Today was Free Fall Friday, writing to prompts. … … Writer Prompt- coffee, the elixir of the gods It’s all my fault. I was minding my own business walking past some silly marble temple in the twilight. I could barely make out, through the trees, some deer fighting a tangle of branches in his […]
War and Gratitude
seanessay.com Free Fall Writing: As defined by novelist W.O. Mitches, where you fall out of a plane and write like mad to save your life before you hit the ground. We pull prompts out of a hat. Writing prompt- Peace in the valley One of my joys in life is having peace in the valley. […]
Remembrance Day for the Tragedy of Troy
seanessay.com a long re-run today, twice the usual length For Remembrance Day I feel this is timely, as novels are selling about Ancient Greece: This year I have read Stone Blind (about Medusa) Circe (Who hosted Odysseus on her island after the war) and Elektra (about Elektra’s mother, who was Helen’s sister, and of Cassandra […]
Leisure is for Your Good Life
seanessay.com Middle aged “British Ann” took a “learn to ice skate” class through campus recreation. Lots of adult immigrants took it too. On her last day I watched Anne skate around the oval without clinging to the boards or using any walker. Big smile. “Look Ma, no hands!” I am reminded of how tourists in […]
Being An Ornery Old Man
seanessay.com I’m only a senior citizen who doesn’t expect Canadians at the next breakfast table to remember… Sean Crawford, in last week’s post, A Spy Being Too Tired I started being an ornery old man back in childhood. I would take a Pacific Stage Lines bus along the mighty Fraser to the port city of […]