seanessay.com My week has been productive, but not blog-wise, because I’ve been on holiday, then working on a piece for my “Creative Nonfiction” class. Derek Sivers e-mailed me from New Zealand to ask about the class, but it was too hard for me to describe without oversimplifying and thereby misleading. So I sent him an […]
Flower Child Angrily Told to Go Take a Hike
seanessay.com from Free Fall Friday No, I’m not nostalgic for the sixties. OK, for some of the fashions, maybe, but mostly it was a big hoax. Someone came across a girl by some park bleachers, perfectly looking like a hippie in a buckskin jacket, headband and so forth, a girl with a clear complexion. Turned […]
People Watching
seanessay.com From gathering on Free Fall Friday, with prompts prompt- she had something to tell him There she was, in the cutesy ginger snap café with her cute blue beret that brought out her eyes. She was about 18, sometimes jiggling her knee, more often moving her toe up and down. The chairs were more […]
A Writer’s Covid Perspective
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, […]