Long Hollow

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  • Harvey’s blowing us a kiss… (and a few recent sweet!s)

        Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year. ~Robert Brault   Throughout the night I woke several times to the sound of heavy rain outside my window. And this afternoon on my back deck, I watched as the wind swooped hard through the hollow every few…

  • Did I mention I went to Florida?

      If there's a heaven for me, I'm sure it has a beach attached to it.       Jimmy Buffett You didn't think I could spend two weeks in Florida and only share that one photo I published in my last blog post, did you?  I did hope to finish editing all of my photos before…

  • Florida, Family, the Fourth… and other not-quite-forgotten “sweet!”s

        This is the post I intended to write back in June, when I returned from a glorious two weeks in Florida, visiting my mother-in-law. I've had the intention just about every day since.  So enough is enough. I've decided "Today's the Day"! (Click on that to hear the awesome Shake Russell song that is…

  • A Truly Rich Man…

    I dreamed of Daddy two nights ago. He stood at a distance from me, like at the end of a hallway, a big smile on his face. And then he was beside me, giving me a hug. We talked, but I don't remember what was said.  It was Daddy, circa 1980's or 1990's, strong and…

  • Mother’s Day, Husband’s Day, and other May Sweet!s

    About 50 years ago, this little cutie was collecting turtles near the Magothy River …pretty much having a Tom-Sawyer-like childhood in the Maryland woods where he grew up with his 8 brothers. He just turned 60, but still loves playing in the woods around our house, discovering and observing wildlife, and he still looks pretty dang cute…

  • For those of you dealing with aging parents…

        This will be my first Christmas as an orphan.  Our Christmas celebrations, not to mention our lives, changed drastically after my dad passed away 3 years ago. Instead of taking a road trip to Houston and gathering with siblings and kids in my childhood home to celebrate, TG and I took a one-day road trip to…

  • Lesson #85 (Happy Birthday in Heaven, Mama!)

      When I asked my mom what she wanted for her birthday last year, she thought for a minute, then said "More time."  I had a feeling it would be the last birthday we celebrated with her on earth; I think she knew it would be. And who knows… maybe she got her birthday wish. Maybe…

  • And another year makes… 28?

      Despite my best efforts to slow down - to catch and savor the sweet surprises of each day - the hours, the minutes, the days, and even the years are beginning to blur. I'm actually having a tough time remembering how old my kids are! I swear Daniel just turned 27, but I blinked, and now somehow he's…

  • Getting Unstuck, and other sweet!s…

        At the time of my last 'sweet' post, I mentioned going through one of the boxes of my mom's things and crying when I came across her uneaten Easter candy. In all honesty, I fell into a funk that day that I just couldn't shake… like a perpetual gray cloud was hovering above my…

  • The Last First 25 Years…

      "The first fact about the celebration of birthdays is that it is a good way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive." ~G.K. Chesterton, "Our Birthday," 1935     TG turned 25 two weeks ago. She spent it floating the San Marcos River with her boyfriend, brothers,…