Long Hollow

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Category: Indulgence

  • Ripped Apart and other Sweet!s of the Week

    A collection of colorful bags and pieces of luggage grows beside me. Today's the day I take TG back to campus to start the spring semester. Wasn't it just a few days ago that we carried all of those bags down from the car? Christmas break went by so fast. At the beginning of it…

  • Kids, Jewelry, Birthdays, Weddings and other (belated) Sweet!s

    A rumble of thunder and whisper of rain woke me in the night. It continues today, another steady, soaking rain falling from a colorless sky. We've had enough rain in the past few weeks that I almost take it for granted, despite the months of drought. Almost, but not quite. Waking to the sound of…

  • “Hey Lady! You forgot FUN!”

    Oh my gosh, I did! Thank you, Squirrel! I can’t believe in my list of important ‘F’ words, I forgot one of the most important ones: FUN!. It wouldn’t be much of a year without that one, would it? So, let’s recap… (from my previous post…) In 2012, I’m going to put up Fences to structure my time… I’m…

  • Sweets On Christmas Eve Eve

    Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion. ~The Talmud Dishes overflow the kitchen sink. Fudge waits in a lined pan to be cut into squares and shared. Three twenty-something kids and I huddle around a laptop within the glow of Christmas tree lights, laughing at You-Tube videos. Favorite cookies fill gold and silver…

  • A Birthday, a Graduation and Texas Heaven…

    We let Max sleep inside the past two nights. Belle, too, of course, although it was more for Max's sake than hers. They have a large dog house, nestled up against the house and the hill, protected from the elements, but even though temperatures were just in the low forties Sunday night, it was bone-chilling…

  • Returning to Me

    http://oascentral.blogher.org/RealMedia/ads/adstream_jx.ads/blogher.org/Pfizer_Nov11_ReviewBadges_014/@x13 With the birth of my first child, my ego, dreams, and most other aspects of Me as I knew Me sloughed off like a snake skin, forgotten. I was a Mother now! That tiny little being depended on me and by golly, that's all that mattered. Within a few years, I had two more…

  • Dancing, friendship, butterflies and the Jake Carr Band…

    Tom and I ventured into enemy territory Friday night: we went dancing in College Station. Considering we have one University of Texas graduate and one still in attendance, that's tantamount to treason around here. (College Station is the home of Texas A&M… UT's arch-rival.) But we had a good reason to go there! We went…

  • On November (and my Sweet! Report)

    Today is the fifth of November. How can that be? Does anyone else feel the swoosh of time flying by?  If I'm not careful, with just a blink it will be December Eve. November is full of writing challenges – novel writing, nonfiction writing, blogging… Why? Who decided this was a month to focus on writing?…

  • Halloween Memories and other Sweet!s

    My Friday drifted away from me. I had a tight grip on it but then next thing I knew it was gone.  It was one of those impulsive days… the kind where I start one thing and in the middle veer off onto something completely different… where I get a lot of little things done…

  • First thing in the morning…

    …even before my eyes pop open, I pray… giving thanks, asking for guidance, and for the needs of my loved ones. That done, I stumble to the bathroom, splash water on my face, brush my teeth, "take care of business", and then head to the kitchen and start my coffee brewing. I need a bit…