At drop-in Free Fall Writing we chuckled at our prompts Auntie Flo and younger lover. People were scandalized as I read aloud. … My Auntie Flora was a character, a dumb blond although her hair was dark. I remember she once telephoned my mother crying that she had done her income tax five times, and […]
A Secret Garden to Prove Them Wrong
Free Fall Writing Prompt- Prove them wrong At my age, complete with straw fedora, I really shouldn’t be worried about “proving them wrong.” But of course, when I am half consciously whooshing my car along highway 9, that can be one of the things I think about. It’s a human thing. A young human thing. […]
Uncle Henry’s Stupendous Stuff in Free Fall
seanessay.com A writing prompt, during last week’s Friday Free Fall, was a tarot card with the word “possibilities.” “The possibilities,” said Uncle Henry, “are limitless. But not my space and time location.” His location was a part of a former barn, well insulated because it had been turned into a large garage, many years ago, […]
What Does Working Hard Mean?
Society always advised me to heroically have a success ethic and to keep on keeping busy. This I never questioned, as I’d rather not be Tarzan but Clark Kent, as in Superman’s Song, “… he would not be caught hanging around, in no jungle scape, dumb as an ape, doing nothing.” (By the Crash Test […]
Telling My Friends to Avoid Impulse Buying
seanessay.com I got a big surprise one day at the mall. I was with a young lady, Shawna, and we came across a big glass ant farm for sale in the middle of the hall. My surprise was not the ant farm—although one never sees them these days. My surprise was that Shawna started to […]
Sarcasm Ain’t in the Bible, and Ain’t New Age
seanessay.com A wife was bullied, back in school. Her husband told me that when they were dating he tried to be funny by using sarcasm. She made him stop. When he told me, I responded, “I despise sarcasm.” I learned the word as a child watching A Charlie Brown Christmas. The dialogue went: Charlie: Thanks […]