seanessay.com Well howdy there, Web surfers. No saving the world today; I’m merely pasting in old stuff from rapid-write Free Fall Fridays. Writing Prompt dwellers One of my joys in life is being a prairie dweller. Do you know what that means? In the winter, long underwear is sexy. In the summer, a back pack […]
A Housewife and I Time Jump to a New Era
seanessay.com The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings RLS—Robert Louis Stevenson To live, how amazing! Sean Crawford A Housewife Time Traveled As for amazing, you may recall that in the major motion picture, Peggy Sue Got Married, she is a wife and […]
Old Cowboy Carries His Own Booze
seanessay.com A major mistake happened when I went to see an early matinee. How strange to see a mother coming into the lobby carrying a toddler under each arm. But no stranger than me with a big bottle of soda under one arm and a bottle of Scots whiskey under the other. Glenlivet, if it […]
Secrets Tourists Don’t Tell about London
seanessay.com (Dateline London) Everybody likes London—I’ve been here a half dozen times. I tell people I stay in Central London, as “90 per cent of the tourist attractions” are there: Museums and Galleries, gardens and theatres, monuments, the science place and the zoo… And of course the shopping, including the world famous Harrods department store: […]
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 […]
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 […]