seanessay.com (Having passed the 300 essays mark, I’m entitled to do one about me) …It’s up to you, oh future business-world person, what you learn in university,… When I was to become a university student, over the summer before I started, I had to go to the education building and see Sylvia. “You need two […]
Lifting Up My Eyes to do a Good Turn
seanessay.com When you step outdoors look at the weather; when you step indoors look at the faces. Chinese proverb Automatic writing, powered by the muse, is what I do on Friday mornings. This week, during a “stream-of-fiction” writing, my page included a retired man who sometimes spent a few days in the capital city to […]
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 […]