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May.17.2013
A short while ago, as a lark and to flex my creativity, I posted a Red Room confession about myself. In my confession, I professed that nothing about me on Red Room is true. Part of my confession was also about Emery Crowhead's death.
First, Emery Crowhead is a real neighbor and that is...
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May.17.2013
Got in line at The Beanery today. Exchanged greetings with Nichole and Chloe behind the counter. We joked about routines and weather. Ahead of me was Whitney, an ex-barrista who is now a basketball coach and phys ed instructor. Whitney told a humorous tale of the janitor at...
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May.17.2013
I woke up in bed. Good place to be. I last remembered going to bed and that was my final memory before falling asleep. It's usually a good omen for an auspicious day when memories and reality synchronize.
I was alone. I looked around for the cats. My wife was dressing...
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May.16.2013
Read an interesting post at Story Fix the other day, Left Brain, Right Brain or No Brain At All, by Larry Brooks. I'm mostly self taught in fiction writing and on continuous missions to learn more about others' processes. Insights I find to explain what I'm going through are small treasures....
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May.16.2013
My wife and I attended a performance of The Unfortunates at Ashland's New Theater last night. It's a chaotic musical tragic comedy featuring Big Joe, with enormous clenched fists, and his love, Rae, a woman with no arms.
The tickets fell to us when a friend felt too sick to attend and...
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May.16.2013
I meditate daily. Usually it's an early, early morning affair when graylight is caught sneaking past the sky's edges. Well, that's from mid April on. Sunlight fails to appear in winter on some days until almost 9 AM, hours after I've meditated, hours after I've reported to work. ...
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May.15.2013
The day was winding down. Golden sunshine washed across the lawn's rich greenness and illuminated our huckleberry, sedge, mountain fire, pink rock rose, yellow day lillies and lavender. Standing on the porch, I enjoyed the still, cooling air and checked the schedule for today on my...
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May.15.2013
The movement my wife and I began continues. I'm not certain what label should be applied to it. It's sort of liberation and sustainability. There are elements of reducing our carbon footprint and being self-sufficient coupled to goals of reducing our monthly financial footprint....
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May.14.2013
Work is quiet. Few emails arrive each day. Meetings are few, with three this morning before 7:30 and nothing since. Rumors bubble across the net. This is the week. More people will be gone. The company has committed to spending $1,000,000,000 to reduce headcount...
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May.14.2013
I struggled to understand a woman's slip's role when I was a boy. I'm certain I was oblivious of their existence until I heard someone tell someone else that their slip was showing. I'm not sure who was the target or sender. That statement keyed me to awareness something was going...
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May.13.2013
I could not find my mantra today. I seached for the slow leak in me that's draining my fuel and starving my engine. I can feel my body shaking with the last of it as the engine coughs and sputters. I'm waiting for the engine to die today.
This video captures much of my daily maze...
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May.12.2013
Gunmen opened up fire at a Mother's Day Parade in New Orleans. Initial reports indicate seventeen were injured.
Our course is clear: we must begin arming everyone that goes to parades.
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May.12.2013
Finished reading Broken Harbor sometime around 2 dark thirty this morning. It was a compelling read to me. French inserts you into a character's mind and you follow their line of reasoning. In her previous books, it seemed like we followed frayed reasoning that held us with the...
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May.11.2013
Tux, our mysterious long haired black and white visitor, remains a feline enigma. As an enigma, he reminds me of The Sense of an Ending.
My wife urged me to read Julian Barnes' book because she wanted my opinion of it. Barnes' tale fascinated me with the sense of imperfect and...
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May.11.2013
They called the area south above the boulevard Oak Hill. Many oaks have been taken down for detached housing, churches and apartment buildings and the roads that connect them and the lawns that make them pretty, but I admired the tall, broad survivors as I walked through muggy rising heat....
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Writing is exploring myself and discovering the stories and characters that managed to burrow into me. It's a trek, a space shot, an endurance race, a transcendental existence and a dark, worrying tunnel.”
About Michael
1956 - I was born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Some other things happened that year, too. Moved around the country as a military brat before finding anchor in Pittsburgh, PA. Lived there 8 years, moved to southern West Virigina, graduated high school and...
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Causes Michael Seidel Supports
Kiva, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Propublica.org, Doctors Without Borders, GreaterGood.com
Michael’s Favorite Books
Catch 22, Catcher In The Rye, Ender's Game, Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Lonesome Dove, Children of Men, The Handmaid's Tale, The Left of Darkness, The Cancer Ward...
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