seanessay.com I do like people of all genders, and I don’t like having my brain washed out with soap: I’d rather be clear eyed about my lovely society—but as a long ago college student, a believer in Women’s Liberation, told me, “The truth shall set you free. But first it will make you miserable.” That […]
Changing Opinions about Changing Dreams
seanessay.com From Friday Free Fall writing Prompt- changed opinions The coulees around Lethbridge change to green with the blessed rain. Oh, one can curse the rain, expend energy in hunching shoulders and frowning eyes, but why? The same amount of rain still gets into you eyes and down your collar and into your shoes. The […]
Social Media was Scary in 1962
seanessay.com One exasperated child to another: Oh, bug off! Sean to a troll: Click off! Last week I was on the phone long distance to my cousin. She’s pretty and blond, yet not dumb. I mentioned that, thanks to the BBC News web page showing which U.S. states were trying to roll back the federal […]
Sympathetic to Travellers, Hating Warriors
seanessay.com (under 900 words) “Hey, sailor!” A United Nations naval contingent steaming near Indonesia, in the future, has my sympathy. Especially as thousands of sailors and marines of several nations find themselves zapped through time, arriving in the mid-pacific, in darkness, there to tangle with the U.S. fleet steaming to fight the Battle of Midway. […]
Doctor Who and I Go Time Traveling
seanessay.com Oh, the things I’ve seen while time traveling from boyhood into my sixties. But first… For over 50 years I’ve been watching, when I can, the British Broadcasting Corporation television series Doctor Who, a show so well regarded that recently news about a change to the cast was on the BBC News website top […]
Delighted By Design
seanessay.com One day, walking down the hall by our receptionist, I cheerfully announced, “If ever I’m a time traveler stuck in the past, I will make some money by inventing the paper clip…” Given that there aren’t any accidental time portals in my neighbourhood, I have no idea why I would be worried about making […]