Long Hollow

Where seeds of thought have room to grow

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Realtor, writer, blogger in Austin, TX

Category: Just thinking…

  • Face in the Mirror

    Face in the mirror You are the face I recognize, the face I know, the face I greet each morning, Yes, the face I love, despite the lines and scars and spots. You and I have traveled together, collected mementoes of Life. Your eye-crinkles and mouth-creases… reminders of laughter and reasons to smile. Deep lines…

  • Birdbrained and Ridin’ Dirty…

    This bird didn't know where it was going! Seeing its zig-zaggy tracks made me laugh – it's exactly how I feel these days, bouncing from writing my book to writing blog posts to photography to 'paycheck' work to blog-reading to my jewelry business to my personal history business to house stuff to to-do lists to…

  • Smiles (and Friday’s Favorite Photos)

    Oh, I had big plans for yesterday, all spelled out in a realistic and do-able list of things to accomplish on my day off. Besides the usual – my morning walk with the dogs, their breakfast on the back porch and my work-out which I always dread and want to get out of the way…

  • Under the right circumstances (or “All Dried Up”)

    If you could peek inside my brain, this is what it would look like… I feel as dry as our pond. Seeds of thought sprout in my brain, but there's nary a cloud of creativity in sight to nourish them. They're just withering away.  Time. That's what I need a bit more of right now.…

  • Time, Water and other missing things (plus Friday’s Favorite Photos)

    I walked at dusk, a tangerine glow still lining the horizon, not quite snuffed by the night sky. The wind blew hard, but it was comforting, like a friend's reassuring hug, and its roaring in my ear was a lullaby, soothing. While the puppies hunted for lizards and rough-housed in the sand, I turned inward,…

  • Rising Up, Grateful (plus some “Sweet!” moments and a belated Friday Favorite Photo)

    Do you ever have those mornings when you're so mentally drained or physically tired you just want to pull the covers up over your head and skip that day altogether? I do. Not often anymore, but I still do every once in a while. On those mornings I remind myself that each and every day,…

  • Have you ever…

      In desperation searching for answers you make a decision plot a course feeling divinely inspired so sure this is it the answer then at the threshold too late to turn back you discover a pit self-doubt, worry, fear what if this isn't the answer? what if, instead, this makes it worse creates more knots…

  • Rambling on a Monday in May

    Before I was fully awake this morning, I started the coffee brewing and switched on the television. Up popped the devastation in Joplin, Missouri – that hospital with blown windows surrounded by mangled vehicles, toothpick trees and piles of rubbish … the videos, the woman's voice praying "Help us, Jesus…" After saying a prayer for all of…

  • There are days…

      Were there no fools, there would be no wise ones. ~ German Proverb   There are days I'm grateful for the gray skies and gathering storm clouds because a blue sky would be a slap in the face, mocking the gray I feel inside. There are days I feel I know everything, and days I realize…

  • Surreal

    "Osama has been killed!"  I didn't believe the words at first when I saw them posted on Facebook, just skimmed past them thinking it was some political joke or teaser. Then I saw them again. And again. Behind me, my phone beeped – my son texting me with the news. I turned on the television,…