seanessay.com Dear Diary: I hate to admit this, but this morning I was “doubling down.” I put “d d” into my vocabulary recently, when a fellow told his young nieces, “Don’t get any tattoos.” He warned that after you make the mistake of getting the first “tat” you “double down” and get a second one, […]
When I am a Senior Citizen I Will…
seanessay.com When I am old, besides wearing purple, I will… do what? Business sage Peter Drucker recommended doing volunteer work, but he also advised: If you don’t volunteer while you are working, you will have trouble getting into doing so when you are retired. Some Irish, God bless them, have come up with a short […]
Relating Across the Rainbow of Time
seanessay.com Is there a felt need to be able to talk across time, to people of other generations? Maybe not, because maybe people think it’s so hopeless they suppress any spark of hope. “I don’t care to talk to young punks.” Like how, before women’s liberation gave hope, we suppressed sparks of outrage at sexism. […]
Canadian Views Americans, their King and Camels
seanessay.com Some of my best friends are Yankees, but you’ve got to admit: Yanks can describe something, with a perfectly straight face, as “…being downright unAmerican.” Nobody up here can say, “UnCanadian”—not without sounding sheepish. A confident man in Santa Fe once said, “No self respecting New Mexican wants to be caught sounding like a […]
My Angry Comment Earned Her Reply
seanessay.com Three posts back, I documented madness: I noted that the number of measles cases is greater in the Province of Alberta than in the entire US of A, cases that could have been prevented by vaccine. …And this fine (October 3) morning a baby here, having contracted measles in utero, died shortly after birth. […]
I, Landlord
seanessay.com I am a landlord. I smiled as Chief Engineer Pelia on the starship Enterprise said, “I still have a bunker in Vermont, where I used to live, in case this no-money-socialist-utopia thing turns out to be a fad.” No landlords on Star Trek. … At age 17, escaping to the big city on my […]