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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 […]
Mommy, What did You do in the Ukraine War?
seanessay.com “Remember kids, nobody brave or honest believes anything the Kremlin says… Unlike the Russians, even the boy who cried wolf at least told the truth once.” Today, I quote someone with more soul than I. He was in the peacetime German army, when Germany was a democracy, and later fought for Kosovo’s freedom against […]
Look Mum, a Local Culture
seanessay.com Despite being asked to join, I’ve never been on Facebook. Just as well, maybe, as now “they say” teenagers believe Facebook is for old people. I believe “they.” Besides, a teen in her final year of high school has, in passing, documented this fact in a prose article for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Madison […]
Facing an Addiction Ain’t Fun
seanessay.com Never did I think that I’d repeat in my own life the theme of the dark movie Christiane F. A wildly popular film in Germany, the book version was a best seller there. (I enjoyed an English translation) I was disappointed, down the years, at the show not entering American popular culture. I saw […]