Long Hollow

Where seeds of thought have room to grow

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Realtor, writer, blogger in Austin, TX

Category: Every Picture Tells a Story

  • Baby Girls

      Baby girls twirl into your life a sweet pink rush of kisses and hugs and giggles, petticoats and tiaras, soccer cleats and mudpies, baby dolls and bicycles, makeup and skinned knees, spitfire and swallowed tears. They're a wonder to behold,  an ever-changing blessing.        At 6:59 pm, twenty-two years ago this evening,…

  • Breathing…and other sweet things in life

    We've been on a rollercoaster ride with my parents the past two days…my sister, Brenda, on the front lines with them, dealing with EMS and emergency rooms…me on the receiving end of texts and phone updates from her.   It started yesterday, when Daddy apparently had a mini-stroke. The sweet! of it is he made…

  • Five Things on Friday

    1. I've captured Belle leaping three days in a row now. All I had to do was write about how I kept getting distracted at the last minute, and BOOM! now I stay focused. It took about fifty years, but I've finally figured out how to manipulate myself. How do you trick, er, train yourself?…

  • Good and Bad

    Good… I made a 95 on the final exam of my second real estate class, Finance. Two down, four to go. Bad… My car battery died in the parking lot of the real estate school while I was taking my test.  Good… One of my classmates had jumper cables! Bad… Tom can tell that the…

  • Monday becomes Tuesday becomes…

    I started this post yesterday, then suddenly yesterday was today. Do your days blur together like that? Mine have a lot lately. I think it's because I work weekends and workdays, plus there was the 4th of July holiday in the middle of a week, and now I'm squeezing real estate school into an already…

  • “I See You” does it again. Sweet!

      I'm so grateful my friend Lisa asked me to take some photos of her colts last year, and that I went kind of crazy, snapping away at all of the horses in the pasture, because on Tuesday I was Huffington Post's Featured Fifty Fine Artist, all because of that beautiful horse up there. That…

  • Five Things on…Friday? (A Long Hollow Update)

    1. I kept forgetting today was Friday. It just felt like a Saturday. Does that happen to you?Okay, now I'll get on with the update…    2. For the first time in two or three years, my crape myrtles are sprouting buds. Except for snapping this photo, I'm trying to ignore them. I get this…

  • My Fourth of July, 2013

    I missed the parade this morning. I had the freedom to sleep in, and felt it would be un-American not to take advantage of it, so by the time I was up and walked the dogs, I would have been scrambling to get to work on time if I had dashed off to the parade.…

  • Progress and Pre-Celebrations

    Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. -Nido Qubein   Driving home along a near-empty toll road tonight, the horizon beside me suddenly came colorfully alive with beautiful fireworks. Great timing, because inside I was celebrating the 100 I had just made on the final exam of my…

  • Just Me and Belle, Huntin’ Lizards

      I'm not sure if Max was mad at me for sleeping in, or if he thought it was already too hot, but Monday morning there was nothing I could do to coax that old dog to go for a walk with me. It hurt my feelings, because I didn't have time Saturday or Sunday…