Long Hollow

Where seeds of thought have room to grow

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Realtor, writer, blogger in Austin, TX

Category: Me and Him

  • 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?…

  • 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…

  • Five Things on…Saturday

       1.   Do any of you still have your landlines? I've been so tempted to cancel ours…but then I remember the agonizing two months we lived without it when we first moved into this house in the country, and how our cell phones only worked outside, up the hill a little bit. How I…

  • The Simple Things are the Sweetest

    Dawn is waking to rain and thunder this morning. She must have pulled the covers back over her head because the Hollow is still dark outside my window, except for occasional flashes of lightning. On a normal morning, the puppies and I would already be out on the dirt road, saying hello to the new…

  • Five Things…

      1. Monday evening I went wading in Lake Travis. I had my camera and was shooting a fun multi-generational family while they ran and played and laughed. I took way too many photos and couldn't help editing as many as possible to share with them, to help them remember the fun they had that…

  • Fifteen Years Ago Tomorrow Morning…

        "Life's about changing, nothing ever stays the same." ~ Patty Loveless, "How Can I Help You To Say Goodbye" That Memorial Day weekend in 1998 was one of the best we'd ever had. We had laughed with friends and danced to Johnny Dee and the Rocket 88's. Spent a glorious day swimming in…

  • Happy Birthday, anyway, Tom!

    When the rain started around 3 am, pounding on the house like we were under a giant faucet, Tom remembered he left his car windows down. A mad dash in the rain up the hill in the middle of the night isn't the greatest way to start your birthday.  I think the worst of it…

  • I Won’t Think About Good-Bye

        I lingered on the back porch this morning with my coffee after the dogs finished their breakfast, listening to birds chirp their confusion over the unseasonal cool temperatures and the wind play rough with the trees.  The sun was shining, and I could see the surface of our little pond sparkling through the…

  • Back to Reality

    The fairy tale is over, at least for me and Tom. While my son and his beautiful bride continue their romantic story over in Italy, we've said goodbye to the rehearsal dinner leftovers and the last out-of-town guest. My mother-in-law left this morning. No more eating out or playing cutthroat games of 3-13, where I actually…

  • Oh, my aching back…

    So yesterday, I get home from work and Tom tells me he needs my help, which makes me happy, because he rarely accepts help on his projects. That's the artist in him, I think. Anyway, he needed my help lifting a heavy rock he'd found on one of his scavenger hunts through the countryside in…