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Jun.19.2013
Ah, the community has rallied around my ill friend, Walt. Pancreatic cancer is eating away at his appetite.
Well, how do we stimulate his appetite? went the query.
Any child of the marijuana era knew that answer.
The call went out: found Walt weed.
Brownies with grass were...
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Jun.19.2013
My personal laptop has decided that it’s unhappy. Making it comfortable on a desk, I spent time attempting to reconcile its issues. As I did, I sang.
One of the joys of attending school at Penn Hills’ Washington Elementary School was singing. I lacked a singing voice but infused...
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Jun.19.2013
I'm pleased to provide a link to my friend's newly published short story.
http://www.litro.co.uk/2013/06/passerby/
Beckie said she wrote this years ago. It was sent off and never received any interest. Each time it returned, she put it away and then pulled it out, read and edited it...
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Jun.18.2013
Had an impromptu two by two evening -
A two mile walk to meet two friends. We visited for two hours and I had two beers. Then I walked two miles home.
The friends were Beckie & Becky, which might be a good title for a television show about two divorced women who start a pet...
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Jun.18.2013
This is just about the best example of someone finally reaching their limit. It's an instance of people accepting things until they are personally affected. It's often called NIMBY - Not In My Back Yard - like, "I believe nuclear power is safe, I just don't want a nuclear power plant built...
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Jun.18.2013
Jealousy has surfaced again.
It's about photographs. More clearly, it's about other people's photographs and my own photograph.
I look at the Red Room profile photographs and see such great photos, handsome and beautiful people, with character and zest, in meaningful poses and settings...
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Jun.18.2013
If this is Tuesday, I must have computer problems ~ or ~ if I'm having computer problems, this must be Tuesday.
Neither work nor personal machines responded for a while after being activated. The work computer is still not playing nice, twenty minutes later. I shall require remedial action...
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Jun.17.2013
Once again, I'm experiencing a problem with Red Room. It becomes such a time suck.
It's a delightful time suck, like discovering secret tunnels in a house that you thought you knew. Exploring the tunnels reminds me of how it used to be in the Internet's woolly early days, before the...
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Jun.17.2013
To honor this new burst of soul summer in me, my mantra today is imagine.
I've been using it as my mantra for several days, if you're going to push me for truth in thinking. I've been addressing it to force change in my life. Jane Wilson's post, Just One Little Boy, with a Gun,...
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Jun.17.2013
The annual Manor Estate Sale at the Medford Armory is recommended as part of your southern Oregon living experience.
The Manor - officially, Rogue Valley Manor - is a retirement community in Medford. A series of large modern buildings high on a hill, they're easily seen from Interstate 5....
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Jun.17.2013
My wife and I rented the television series Homeland on DVD from Netflix. Well, we asked for the first disc of the first year. Three episodes.
Homeland is the hot series, gathering rave reviews about its credibility and the slow way in which it unfolds everything.
Naturally,...
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Jun.16.2013
I was laughing at myself as I dressed this morning.
No, it had nothing to do with spotting my reflection in the mirror.
It was the cargo shorts I put on.
No, they look fine. Fit great.
Made by Union Bay, they're olive green -- or they were. The original color is visible under the pocket...
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Jun.16.2013
I walked fast today, eager to write. Sundrenched, cool but warming, it was a comfortable early morning for a fast walk.
My writing eagerness came from a new spring of realization that bubbled up today. Hoping not to sound too sentimental, I realized this is the best time of my...
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Jun.15.2013
Charged my RX7's battery and took it for a spin, washing off the accumulated dust at the car wash.
Then -
I stopped for a pedestrian in the crosswalk.
The guy behind me didn't.
Nobody was hurt. My car is damaged - rear bumper cap, Borla exhaust tips are bent back, one split. Nothing...
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Jun.15.2013
He arrives every night as dusk takes control. I still call him Tux. He remains an enigma.
I'm trained to watch for him. He makes no announcement he arrived. He sits down a few feet from the front door and watches. I'll go by and glance out. He runs to the door...
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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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