Long Hollow

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Realtor, writer, blogger in Austin, TX

Category: Inspiration and Heroes

  • Goodbye Mr. McGhee

    We were the first girls' Shop class ever at Deepwater Junior High. Ever. Let me repeat:  The…First…Ever.  It was 1973. I was trying to recover from my first (and only) 'C' on a report card (7th grade Sewing. ugh.) and jumped on this chance to regain my dignity as well as be part of the…

  • Oh, when the saints go marching in…

    I'm a genealogy nut. I haven't devoted any time to research lately, though, because it's too addicting…one name leads to another and to another and to another…next thing I know 10 hours have flown by with my nose in a book or my eyes on a computer screen, pencil clenched in my fingers, nothing to…

  • Timing – my Friday Favorites

    I hoped to put my morning walk off until later, when the sun was higher (better light, better photos) and I had finished my work-out (the longer I put it off, the less likely I am to do it! It's better to catch myself before I'm fully awake!) But Belle spotted me through the window;…

  • In the Drumline (in my mind)

    I played my drums this morning – just one quick song streaming through my hand-me-down iPod knock-off… "My Alien" by Simple Plan. It's the first time this week I've picked up the drumsticks. I think I might have once last week. I can't remember. The weeks, the mornings, just blur together. By necessity I'm focusing…

  • Running Away… a Different Kind of Survivor Weekend

    Last weekend I was surrounded by survivors… not the kind that sleep outside and eat bugs and face other challenges they take on voluntarily, but the real kind of survivors… the ones who encounter huge obstacles along their life road they didn't expect and don't want, but who keep going, head down during the toughest…

  • Blowing a birthday kiss to my Daddy!

    Today's my Daddy's 84th birthday. He complains about this or that, like not being able to think of the word he needs that's on the tip of his tongue, or not having the energy he used to have… but these are things I'm already dealing with! He's got scars from top to bottom, thanks to…

  • Mr. Amazing

    When I walked in the door yesterday evening, Tom was pulling a bottle of Tabasco Sauce from the refrigerator. It was Hot Wings night. I mentioned in another post how I'm fighting those nasty debt demons; I didn't mention how Tom is fighting them, because he deserves a whole post of his own. What does…

  • 61 years later…

    …and they're still in love. It hasn't always been easy. I'm sure there were times they couldn't stand each other, because how could you live with someone for that long and not feel like you want to claw their face (symbolically speaking only, of course. Ahem.) But they loved each other through those times, clinging…

  • Divas and Sunshine – Just What the Doctor Ordered

    I've been packing a lot into my life lately, both by choice and necessity. I've been skimping on sleep at a time when I need to be getting more, stressing over finances, kids and property/neighbor issues. But there are times when skimping on sleep is exactly the right thing to do – especially if it's…

  • Roy and The River

    I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. DIANE ACKERMANAmerican writer and naturalist, present day     Remember that Garth Brooks song, "The River"? It popped into my head this morning and is…