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 […]
Auntie Flo and Younger Lover
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 […]