Sayonara Blog

seanessay.com My 175th post. A sign? And WordPress no longer has stats to show what country my visitors are from—grrr! A sign? I used to have a direct link on my desktop, now I have to jump through hoops to get into my own website. And new hoops—plural—to get my stats. Definitely a sign that […]

Have Social Skills, Will Travel

seanessay.com Derek Sivers’s blog has scores of comments for his recent Travelling Just for the People. (Instead for landmarks and tourist sights) A few of the commenters, no doubt representing many lurkers, lamented they don’t know how to meet the locals. “Not even in bars and cafes” says one, explaining he came from a more […]

Russians glum but Joking

seanessay.com Preface  In my university not-so-stuffy Latin class, one day, as students entered, I was chuckling to the serious lady next to me. Such fun words in our Latin textbook, such as lycanthrope (werewolf) and one of today’s words, defenestrate.  She said earnestly, “I saw that word last night, and I didn’t understand.” Of course […]

Russian says Adults will Wriggle like Eels

seanessay.com Reminder: The Kremlin said the troops were massing for peaceful purposes and would never cross the Ukraine border. In the first weeks of the “special military operation” Russian civilians refused to believe their own relatives who told them Russia was shelling their buildings, and soon the Kremlin said the Ukrainians were shelling themselves. Remember?  […]

Freedom of Thought for Muslims

seanessay.com “Free your mind, and the rest will follow.” Small town Alberta singer k.d. Lang Dancing with a concept Everybody knows that smaller towns, or more restrictive religions, result in narrower minds. Yes but why? It’s as if, sometimes, peers and relatives can be too restrictive—while right now Russia is one vast rural sprawl, under […]

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