seanessay.com Since free fall writing, by definition, is not edited, I don’t need to hold this “essay” back for my peers to edit. I can simply cut-and-paste yesterday’s Free Fall Friday. (10 a.m.-12 noon at the Alexandra Writers Centre, in person and another group online) Prompt- afraid One day, I realized I was afraid. I, […]
Little By Little Does the Trick
seanessay.com If I were raising children (or myself) then I would surely point out the insight gained if the child (or myself) stopped to think of the power of Little By Little. Years ago I was a young soldier. This was after eight tracks and before compact discs, a time when a popular pre “video […]
Recruit School is Really Scary
seanessay.com (under a thousand words) One of my college classmates sobbed during her brief time in a British police academy. She later wondered, as many civilians do: Why are recruit classes for police and the armed forces so hard? When civilians ask “What time did they make you get up in the morning?” or “How […]
From Parade Drill to Patrolling
seanessay.com (under 1,000 words) Sometimes I think about free citizens rushing into training for the war in Ukraine. I imagine older volunteers would guard prisoners and checkpoints. As for the younger guys, I guess their commanders could seize every spare moment to train them, beyond the indelible training of being in the “front lines.” Or, […]