seanessay.com My week has been productive, but not blog-wise, because I’ve been on holiday, then working on a piece for my “Creative Nonfiction” class. Derek Sivers e-mailed me from New Zealand to ask about the class, but it was too hard for me to describe without oversimplifying and thereby misleading. So I sent him an […]
Male and Female Prologues
seanessay.com Prologue, Mid-afternoon He was walking, not marching, with a soldier-on-the-town amble. Private Jung was wearing one of his two sets of uniform, in the town, only two kilometres from the base. To the right was a bar that surely had some fellow soldiers inside; to his left an Inn, up ahead was a precious […]
A Bad, Bad Day, With Comments
seanessay.com I’m having a bad, bad day It’s about time That I get my way From the Despicable Me soundtrack Partly I feel bad today because my body is sick, too sick to attend a nice party tonight. The only productive thing I did today was make some comments on other blogs. My own blog […]
Social Media Frustrates me Again
seanessay.com Note: my sister lives in cattle country too, but in another time zone, “in the caribou,” in British Columbia. I could be hopping mad right now. Or I could let out all my air, sinking into depression, disgust and saying, “What’s the use?” I’d rather be mad. I was driving home a half hour […]
Struggling In College Again
seanessay.com There were 182 helpful blog comments after a smart, well-liked college kid, whose blog I follow, reported failing university, big time, repeatedly. None of the comments advised on emotional or mental health, no, not after the first comment was from the girl’s father to discouraged such advice, saying she was getting adequate counselling already. […]
Second Thoughts on this Sexy Blog
seanessay.com Never mind “meaning of life,” I’m just looking for “meaning of blog.” Sometimes I leave a warm sensual bed to go sit over at my table in the early morning to post—is it worth it? I am wondering, now, for this landmark 75th entry. It’s been a year since I started with an obligatory […]