seanessay.com One of my favourite bloggers, Derek Sivers, did a piece on four books that changed his life. At the time, I could not clearly remember any, and in my comment I said so. Months later he send by mass email-out a URL for the same blog, and two others, and this time I had […]
Poor Traveller Meets Millionaire
seanessay.com There was a time when I mock-grouched, “Work colleagues can travel home to Asia and Africa, while I can’t even afford to fly to Saskatchewan.” (the next province over) Then a colleague at work, one year, flew to see the WWI battlefields in France. Well. So I decided to finally start budgeting too: Being […]
From Friday Free Fall Writing
prompt- desperate gamble There are calculated risks where, for good or ill, you can recover and go on. But a gamble is a binary proposition. It works, or you lose all. Oh, let’s not go there. In our civilized life, a gamble is figurative, really, not the end of the world if you lose. But […]
Glumly Parsing My Clutter On Posting Day
seanessay.com Hello, it’s posting day, and I’ve got nothing… Except here’s a quote that speaks to me: “Consider what so many younger employees do for relaxation: climb rocks, raft rivers, bike mountains, surf waves, trek in distant locales. … So many come from sheltered backgrounds that the prospect of excitement entices them more than the […]
When Emotions Were Hard
seanessay.com (under 1,000 words) This week I clicked on a very successful blogger, who is also a voice actor and screen actor: Will Wheaton. (Link) I’m sure he’s a normal seeming fellow, and he has a past. Me too. His post is about speaking for the ACE resource network: Adverse Childhood Experiences, and their NumberStory.org […]
Getting to Nice
seanessay.com This week I mentioned “kind,” and this month I mentioned my Toastmasters club, a club “for public speaking and leadership.” One night, as usual, my club meeting opened with a brief “introduction question.” The chairman asked us to “Please say your name and What are you known for?” In his case, he was known […]