Long Hollow

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Realtor, writer, blogger in Austin, TX

Category: My Evolution

  • On My Honor…

        The drop was made in a pull-off area of the highway. I pulled up next to the white SUV, slid open the side door of the van and handed over the shoebox and white file box containing twenty years of history. Next, I dug around in my purse for the checkbook and two envelopes of checks,…

  • Married to an Angel

        Tom spent this past Thursday evening in the emergency room. He was fine, but a friend of his fell on some steps leaving their office building and landed headfirst- Tom said it sounded like a bowling ball hitting the concrete. The miracle of it all is the friend suffered no damage – they ran all…

  • With Classmates Like These…

    …my screenplay will either withstand the ripping critiques and emerge an award-winner, or crawl away to the 'to-be-shredded' basket. The few pages I submitted are still way down the line on the reading list, but as they get closer and closer to the front, I'm getting a feeling similar to what it might feel like in…

  • Living

        "The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." (Henri Nouwen)         I wanted to go to a funeral…

  • A Week of Surprises, Struggles, Celebration, Sorrow

        This has been one of those odd weeks that has zoomed by and yet simultaneously seemed to last forever. Weather-wise, it started with fog, which made way for ice, but ultimately the sunshine won out.     Emotion-wise, it's been a week of highs and lows as well.     At the end of the week, like a glowing beacon, a…

  • The Truth According to Kafka

    WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS SOME UNJUSTIFIABLE WHINING.        "Sidney, uh, how many pages do we need to have done by next week?"    "Oh, just enough to get an idea of the main character, get to the first turning point, so, say twenty or thirty?"    (gasps from several of us.)    "Come on, people, this is a writing class – you…

  • I Miss READING

        I miss reading just for fun, what I want, and for as long as I want. Right now there are twenty more pages of the third (partial) screenplay I need to read and critique before tomorrow night waiting for me on the kitchen table, and then I need to work on my own, but I needed a…

  • Sometimes Nice Doesn’t Cut It

        I sat on the hood of my car in the deserted strip center parking lot, brooding over the fresh argument with my boyfriend, jingling my car keys in my hand, trying to decide what to do. Go back in or go home? He was still in the club – music drifted out of the building and across…

  • Intimidation Breeds Success (I hope)

        For the first time in about twenty years, I don't feel out of place, age-wise, in a classroom. I'm about average, in fact.     Skill-wise…that's different. There are about a dozen of us in this screenwriting class – actually a workshop – and last night as we went around the circle introducing ourselves and describing our…

  • Wednesdays…WHOOSHdays…and updates

        Between now (getting home from work, sipping on a warmed-up cup of coffee to see me through the evening and counter the effects of all the antihistamine I'm having to take for the cedar) and when I need to leave for class, I have about an hour…     That's an hour to start dinner (only start – I'll…