seanessay.com …that many people will find shocking. If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn’t written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial… Paul Graham Putting Ideas Into Words November […]
Man on Mars, Duck on Prairie
seanessay.com Well howdy there, Web surfers. No saving the world today; I’m merely pasting in old stuff from rapid-write Free Fall Fridays. Writing Prompt dwellers One of my joys in life is being a prairie dweller. Do you know what that means? In the winter, long underwear is sexy. In the summer, a back pack […]
Report From the Trenches on Tariffs
seanessay.com Who can you ask, if you live in the US, about the effect of tariffs? And why do I stress “trenches”? Last week, by way of illustration about “who to ask,” someone posted that our big creative building, C-space, would be closed for both Good Friday and Easter Monday. I responded, “Do you know […]
Purely and Truly in the Arena
seanessay.com I worry about being “good enough” for meeting the writing standards of a mysterious “they,” the authorities in my head—and the standards of my harsh parents, who would today despise my academic clutter and my unmanageable piles of books that aren’t shiny, that don’t fit on my available shelves… As a schoolboy, when my […]
Fresh Anger at MRU Board of Governors
seanessay.com “To see is to like.” Sean, after regularly seeing unwed high school mothers on the bus INTRODUCTION At the university the various administrative offices are in a modest low building dating back to the founding of the campus, from before students rebelled, (a confederate rebel cap is in the trophy case) before the campus […]
On Human Capital, OR how the Mount Royal University board of governors Messed Up Royally.
seanessay.com (Time travel note: This story concerns when MRU was still MRC) The BBC once did a story on The Murder That Changed America. A young university student in Laramie, Wyoming, was “gay bashed,” as in beaten severely, tied to a fence, and left to die. His crime? Existing while gay. Question: Was MRC (Mount […]