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BAGS: Obsessions of a Hoardaholic

Author: Lee Michael Buckman

In BAGS: Obsessions of a Hoardaholic, I explore our obsessive nature by exampling my own bouts with OCD through my life. It's funny, reflective, extremely honest  and a little sad. It's an intimate piece about how you can be taken over by thoughts that attempt to run your life and my attempts to seek the roots of it to further understand myself. I also play and sing a few introspective songs on guitar.

As we  all  look deeper into ourselves to further understand who we are and the things/events that shaped us into who we've become through our triumphs and our flaws, it's important to honestly look at them without censoring or feeling that we are    wrong in anyway. In this piece I unabashedly look at them all.

At first I wrote this show to out myself as a hoarder and an obsessive because I thought it would be entertaining, but as I started to perform it, I started to get responses from people that had either been touched by this same trait, either directly or indirectly or those that had witnessed the passing of a parent. I was trying to alienate myself from people by saying  how different I am but through putting it out there honestly, I'm seeing how alike we all really are.

Lee Michael Buckman, author/performer