seanessay.com (1,000 words) Falling down the rabbit hole, writing on Free Fall Friday. – Here’s something cheerful to me—because it’s worse than Covid… prompt- We sat around and talked about symptoms. We who survived the plagues had lots of little symptoms, but—We weren’t dead! Life puts things into perspective. Help yourself to clothes and cars […]
Time To Pause
seanessay.com From memory: There are a million ways to escape life, and only one way to face life—Jess Lair, Ph.D. I guess we all can succumb, on occasion, to the time sink of going on the Web: Seeking to surf and distract through Twitter, Youtube and such. We all know there’s a fine line between […]
Exotic Everyday Excitement
seanessay.com We gather, leap off a prompt, and fall down, down the rabbit hole, seeing what happens… on Free Fall Fridays. “There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.” —Celia Thaxter prompt-ice sculptures If you go to the city of Edmonton, in the middle of January, there they are: ice sculptures. In Churchill square, […]
Glad to Be Alive
seanessay.com Down the rabbit hole, having jumped off with a prompt, writing to see what happens… gathering with peers at Free Fall Fridays. Perhaps on that Friday, seven years ago, I was thinking of old research that showed that during wartime the rate of suicides goes down: No one knew why. Besides being glad to […]
After Fifty Passionate Posts
seanessay.com It’s been fifty posts on this new blog. Now what? From my old blog site, I got into the practise of taking stock every 25 posts. My 25th new blog post, by the way, was called My 25th Experimental Post where I amused myself and others by reflecting on the various experimental writing I […]
Death of Buffy
seanessay.com I am forever awed by the beautiful competency of television executive Joss Whedon’s handling of the death of Buffy Summers on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (BtVS) I’m impressed, for one thing, that I’m not spoiling the plot, for any new viewers, by writing this essay, since Joss foreshadows her demise right from the first […]