seanessay.com In my field of “community disabilities,” I once attended an afternoon workshop on “How to Pick a Candidate” for a rehabilitation team. Mostly we learned to look at our existing team, and then hire someone who would offer complementary skills. At the end, as we were winding down, we talked of hiring practises that […]
Meetings Foul and Meetings Competent
seanessay.com (under 1,000 words—until David Bowie footnotes) If tomorrow I was at a “gathering,” be it a community centre meeting, workshop, wedding reception, poetry recital, dinner party, two day business retreat, three day conference— OK, I’ll stop brainstorming now. Then I might be a timid wallflower; I would keep silent even as I saw things […]
Free Fall Party
essaysbysean.blogspot.com Preface Up high. The RGO Treehouse. Plate glass walls on three sides. We of the Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society are having our Christmas party. I am one of four asked to read aloud for five minutes. Folks know me. Not from any blog, but from attending the drop-in “Free Fall Friday.” (Now held on […]