Russians glum but Joking

seanessay.com Preface  In my university not-so-stuffy Latin class, one day, as students entered, I was chuckling to the serious lady next to me. Such fun words in our Latin textbook, such as lycanthrope (werewolf) and one of today’s words, defenestrate.  She said earnestly, “I saw that word last night, and I didn’t understand.” Of course […]

Freedom of Thought for Muslims

seanessay.com “Free your mind, and the rest will follow.” Small town Alberta singer k.d. Lang Dancing with a concept Everybody knows that smaller towns, or more restrictive religions, result in narrower minds. Yes but why? It’s as if, sometimes, peers and relatives can be too restrictive—while right now Russia is one vast rural sprawl, under […]

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 […]

Speak Up to Bring Down

Speaking up is hard for anybody anywhere; I sympathize. Brian Tellerico, during a review of a four-part show about sex predator Bill Cosby, wrote  “How Cosby was enabled becomes a backdrop for the show, but Bell avoids pointing fingers in that department, in a manner that could be frustrating for some. The idea that “someone […]

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