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 (I think) 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, […]
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. […]
A University Class as an Oasis in the Desert
seanessay.com (Having passed the 300 essays mark, I’m entitled to do one about me) …It’s up to you, oh future business-world person, what you learn in university,… When I was to become a university student, over the summer before I started, I had to go to the education building and see Sylvia. “You need two […]