seanessay.com I don’t often think of children and sex. But today I will. I live in the Bible Belt. In my college program, of the students from small towns, most had attended Bible studies. At my university, at our student LGBTQ club, the Europeans were amazed —as I guess folks from New York City would […]
Thinking of Thin-skinned People
I was at an organized Christmas evening at the Alexandra Writer’s Centre Society, a place that includes folks under 18. That night I was asked to read five minutes of a typical “Friday Free Fall.” My reading, all from the same Friday, was an observational piece about road beauty, a funny romance piece, and a […]
A Return to Enjoying Public Transit
seanessay.com Being sans car for a few days (I get it tomorrow), I spent today doing errands on public transit: train twice, bus thrice. Nice to connect with downtown again. “Don’t ever get a car,” I used to tell people, “for now I have lost touch with downtown.” On the electric train I admired the […]
What Secrets Are We Not Seeing?
seanessay.com I recently read how some cultures don’t have words for certain colours, and can’t perceive those colours. I guess it’s like how folks looking through microscopes at cells didn’t see that little dot of a nucleus, not until after someone wrote about it in a magazine. Even then, not everyone included the dot in […]
Poisonous Fruits of an -Ism
seanessay.com By “ism” I don’t mean Islam—or perhaps I do, (and not all isms are bad)—I mean any belief system that approaches tyranny over the minds of man. There are lots of isms. My university had a weekly Marxist-Lenninist study group—yes, like in the Sheryl Crow song—where the students were as sincere as the Christian […]
Three Truths in JournalismVille that I Know for Sure
seanessay.com Student Karla Krahn, at the University of Calgary Student Union building, in the Women’s Collective and Resource Center, in a conversation with Sean, “Once you start accepting responsibility, there’s no going back.” … For 2025, I know only three things for sure: One: If laboratory rats can eat it, then it may cause cancer. […]