seanessay.com Is there a felt need to be able to talk across time, to people of other generations? Maybe not, because maybe people think it’s so hopeless they suppress any spark of hope. “I don’t care to talk to young punks.” Like how, before women’s liberation gave hope, we suppressed sparks of outrage at sexism. […]
Tourist Breaks the Ice to Talk to Strangers
seanessay.com When traveling, some folks despair, wondering how to “break the ice” with strangers: One tourist said he just couldn’t engage with locals, “not even in bars and cafes.” A couple, planning to travel to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, feared they wouldn’t speak with a single soul. To that couple I offered specific advice, […]
A Housewife and I Time Jump to a New Era
seanessay.com The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings RLS—Robert Louis Stevenson To live, how amazing! Sean Crawford A Housewife Time Traveled As for amazing, you may recall that in the major motion picture, Peggy Sue Got Married, she is a wife and […]
Free Falling in First Person
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, […]
Mister Thompson, Me and Postwar Sparrows
seanessay.com Hark, when the night is falling, Hear, hear the pipes are calling, Loudly and proudly calling, Down through the glen Scotland the Brave Back when every classroom had a picture of the young queen, my grade five teacher was Mr. Thompson. He was sternly intent on teaching us our provincial geography, such as plateaus, […]
When Mentors are Merry and Gone
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 […]