seanessay.com Strange how a person can significantly influence your life—and then that person is gone. For a buddy in the reserves, training in a mountain monsoon rainforest with members of the Canadian Airborne Regiment, his mentor was a paratrooper who guided him through the worst. He told me they even had to sleep on sloping […]
Secrets Tourists Don’t Tell about London
seanessay.com (Dateline London) Everybody likes London—I’ve been here a half dozen times. I tell people I stay in Central London, as “90 per cent of the tourist attractions” are there: Museums and Galleries, gardens and theatres, monuments, the science place and the zoo… And of course the shopping, including the world famous Harrods department store: […]
Even Nasty Activists like to be Tourists
seanessay.com At the east edge of Banff National Park is the town of Canmore, at the east edge of which stands the Alpine Club lodge. We were “getting away from it all,” and a high school group was there too, with the smell of green nettles drifting in the open windows, the feel of earthy […]
Increasing Self-Power by Changing Environment
seanessay.com Headnote: I’m in London. Last night a talk-radio show reported that if you leave a light on for an extra four hours per day, then at the end of the year your bill will only increase by… $1.75. (in pounds) The story went on to say there are a lot of unnecessary family rows […]
If Zeus Blasts My Drinking Buddy…
seanessay.com Today was Free Fall Friday, writing to prompts. … … Writer Prompt- coffee, the elixir of the gods It’s all my fault. I was minding my own business walking past some silly marble temple in the twilight. I could barely make out, through the trees, some deer fighting a tangle of branches in his […]
Leisure is for Your Good Life
seanessay.com Middle aged “British Ann” took a “learn to ice skate” class through campus recreation. Lots of adult immigrants took it too. On her last day I watched Anne skate around the oval without clinging to the boards or using any walker. Big smile. “Look Ma, no hands!” I am reminded of how tourists in […]