essaysbysean.blogspot.com Keeping with my recent nerd theme: Here’s an old post, from my old lengthy blog, abridged by half. I’ve been thinking about my brilliant buddy Blair lately. Before he passed away, he showed how to overcome the pitfalls of being smart. Here in Calgary, Blair Petterson was known as the guy who came down […]
Lucky Blog
seanessay.com The template I use is called cenote, after those deep natural wells in Mexico. Of the six essays displayed on the page, I could set each opening paragraph to be the most striking graph within each piece, but I don’t, reasoning that long-time readers don’t want to be blog-baited that way. Other templates might […]
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 Falling Through Snow and History
seanessay.com (over 900 words) Falling down the rabbit hole, writing on Free Fall Friday. prompt- transferred My values have transferred. Once, if I sincerely wanted the doctor to come, I would hitch up the horses to fetch him. But once we installed (lazy) telephones the doctor wisely declined. Call it a transfer of values, from […]
Death of Buffy
seanessay.com I am forever awed by the beautiful competency of television executive Joss Whedon’s handling of the death of Buffy Summers on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (BtVS) I’m impressed, for one thing, that I’m not spoiling the plot, for any new viewers, by writing this essay, since Joss foreshadows her demise right from the first […]
Champion to Orphans
essaysbysean.blogspot.com “Orphans make the best recruits.” M to 007, in Skyfall Although commonly disparaged in self-help books, Pollyanna is a nice novel. I enjoyed it as a classic about an impoverished orphan refusing to be defeated. Surely Amy Adams would have played the heroine if any Pollyanna movies been made during Amy’s girlhood: “I think […]