seanessay.com “Hey sports fans, how ‘bout them Ukrainians?”… Underneath the big money-devouring questions of whether we should act quickly to help Ukraine, including “Should we manufacture ammunition?” are the small inexpensive questions about athletes on the world stage. Some say Russians should be allowed among the rest of us at international events provided they compete […]
Being Judged at the Imperial War Museum
seanessay.com …Fear of the very existence of honest Ukraine impelled violence, for a dictator’s lies always require violence to exist, just as violence always requires lies to exist…From ideas of Solzhenitsyn (Sean Crawford ) A young man asked me, “Do you work here?” (My rucksack and tourist hat were in a locker) I answered “No, but try […]
Flying Farm Boy Meets Old Man
seanessay.com Flying to London, I met an artist. Not on the plane, at the airport. A “young man from a farm” who is a singer-songwriter, who posted his songs on various social media, media whose names I can’t even remember—I’m too old to go there. His international audience likes his pieces about the humour in […]
Coping With Cold in the Great White North
seanessay.com Below minus 32 Fahrenheit, as my feet squeak through subzero snow, I reflect that there is one thing to break the gloom: Christmas! Such a time for gratitude, a time when Muslims, Jews and Atheists alike may all be grateful that evergreen Christmas trees, Frosty the snowman, Santa Claus, Rudolph and presents wrapped up […]
Passing Milestone 150 amidst Orcs and social media
seanessay.com I’ve driven well past my 150 milestone of blog posts, a white stone that was supposed to signal a “checkpoint time” to see how I was doing. My new goal has been to reduce my number of posts so as to focus on writing fiction instead— as I told my writer’s support group. That […]
Cruel Students Who Ignorantly Cancel
seanessay.com Anyone who reads my essays probably takes a grown up interest in the news, and has heard how this summer a 24-year old man tried to murder Salman Rushdie in public, onstage, for a novel published back in the 20th century. I was not surprised to learn that the grown adult who attempted to […]