seanessay.com Someone wrote to me, immediately after our zoom meeting: Thanks for the skills session today, it was great! I replied: Thank you for saying so, that’s nice to hear. I am reminded of the semester I took with theatre majors taking Creative Movement. We presented our movement studies both solo and in pairs. In […]
Bella Baxter As a Victorian Man From Mars
seanessay.com Having already seen the show in London, I just had to gleefully stride into the lobby of Calgary’s arthouse cinema, The Plaza, and proclaim at the counter, “One adult for Bella Baxter!” They knew I meant the controversial movie Poor Things, which several female journalists at a certain British well known progressive newspaper had […]
An Alumni’s Awesome University Cogitation
seanessay.com Actually these “thoughts” do not include the stuff that affectionate alumni or Human Resources guys might say. Never mind. A famous blog I follow is that of Penelope Trunk (her pen name) for her advice on career and Life In The World. She’s also famous among home schoolers, as I know from a local […]
Time Flies in Free Fall to the Ground
A raven on a skull inspired the writing prompt of Tempus Fugit, the ground was fifteen minutes away It was a death camp survivor, Victor Frankel, who knew the value of time. He had to live day to day, of course, to survive the horror. And he found that all of the survivors, as many […]
Many People Procrastinate on Projects
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In My Day, We Wrote Paper Letters
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