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19 Aug, 2019
My blogs and our Birch Clump Village E-News letters are making a come back after about a year's absence on my part. So sign up on our contact page if you are nor already a subscriber. A lot of exciting changes challenged my time to keep the blog, web site and new letters going these past several months. For one, I am now the Community Superior for my monastery. We have a newly renovated book and gift store that I attend to. My latest book, I hope, will be coming out before the end of this year (2019). The photo is of me inserted into a class room similar to the ones I once attended for grade school.
By Joshua (Tim) Seidl 09 Jan, 2019
There are over 150 plants in Brother Joshua's garden. Most are herbs and flowers. He also grows gourds and a few vegetables. You may contact him via the website "contact us" page if you are interested in his Sweet Annie & Mug wort sachets. Sweet aroma, this mixture also dispels spiders and mosquitoes. Pictured here are muslin bags containing three sachets each for only $6.95 + shipping (USPS only within the USA)
By Joshua (Tim) Seidl 30 Jan, 2017
About my most recent publication
By Joshua (Tim) Seidl 28 Jul, 2016
Author talks on how he illustrates his own books
By Joshua (Tim) Seidl 25 Apr, 2016
My latest character development for the Birch Clump Village Reader series is Tim Browne. He also goes by Brownie and as Brownie-T. He comes from a small town in northern Oakland County, Michigan, born in 1951. He is pictured seated above following a fist fight he was forced into. Most witnesses ran off when the police arrived soon after the brutal fist fight ended. A few few remained behind just to gawk at the exhausted, beaten winner, (Browne) and the antagonist who was knocked out cold. I have four short stories with Tim Browne as the main protagonist. He was erroneously called a Jew, a claim he neither denies or confirms. He endures occasional anti-Semitic discrimination as a result, including a couple of violent encounters with some bigots.
By Joshua (Tim) Seidl 31 Jul, 2015
I asked Uncle Charlie to send me a list of ten things. I committed to write a story involving each item. Among the most outlandish entry was "Falling ten feet out of bed." The challenge to good fiction as opposed to non-fiction, is that fiction needs to be believable. I think I did a pretty good job of finding a logical reason why a person would fall ten feet from a bed; (rotted second floor beams.) Jig Rajan from the novels and a totally new fiction character, Danny are the protagonist. The young bachelors work for Danny's aunt at a small TV and radio shop in Escanaba, Michigan. They hear a commotion in a back alley and rush in to rescue a Mexican migrant worker about to be beaten by a pair of racists. Danny, a reluctant hero, is pictured here resting on a trash can shaking and trying to calm down from the nauseating adrenaline rush. The pair learn of the biased and illegal treatment of many migrant farm workers. They decide to do some amateur investigative work with the help of the aunt to bring the landlords to justice. It is up to the diminutive, brown skin Jig to try and get hired as a migrant worker. The real Mexicans know his Spanish is insufficient, and those who hire day workers can see his smooth hands were not accustom to harvesting fruit and vegetables. The aunt, once an aspiring men's fashion designer, coaches Jig on modeling. He dons his tightest pair of jeans and and an open floral print shirt. He struts about on the same corner as the other day workers. He is eventually hired as a pool boy by the wife on one of the wealthy landlords. It turns out that one of the thugs he and Danny ran off in the back alley is their son. He gathers a team of men with ax handles and rope to put an end to Jig's snooping around. The short story, Ten Things is in the book by the same name, TEN THINGS: BIRCH CLUMP VILLAGE READER 4 .
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