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Category: Remember when…
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It's a darling place, my son's girlfriend Kirby's first apartment. The wooden floor and vintage telephone niche give its age away, but it has held up better than most 50+-year-olds I know. Yes, it's obvious it's had a little "work" done…some nips and tucks and new cabinets…but nothing outlandish, fake or too youthful. Hubby Tom and I got…
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He's stretched out on the couch in front of the television. Austin City Limits is on and I can hear Kenny Chesney singing from where I sit at the desk, paying bills. "Oh, this is a good one," I say. "Let's dance!" I expect the "No" but I ask anyway. I love to dance, but when I…
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Who says you can only celebrate big on the milestone years? For over a year my high school classmates and I danced and WA-HOO!ed our way through our 50th birthdays. Now all of the stragglers (those babies of the class of '77) have caught up while others are moving on to 51. But the parties haven't stopped. Why should…
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I thought of it yesterday morning, but my brain is too busy these days. There's too much traffic, too much coming and going. Or maybe as I get older I just can't handle this much activity. At any rate, the thought was lost in the crowd. It fought its way back through the throngs, re-appearing…
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It's been almost ten years, but I can still remember that suffocating weight of construction loan deadlines, knowing if we didn't finish what we needed to by a certain date, everything we had accomplished up to that point would vanish…poof!…like sawdust on a windy day – along with all of our money, dreams…everything. The deadlines press down on you, squeezing the breath…
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In homage to Shake Russell's song, "What This Heart Holds", I decided, for Valentine's day, for Tom, I'd take a look inside. Here are a few things I discovered this heart holds… Intense blue eyes, sandy blonde hair, freckles scattered across broad shoulders… The fear and excitement of new love…that moment of recognition, that instant when my heart…
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Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible. W. Stanley MooneyhamAmerican minister and speaker, 20th century ********************** I was bemoaning the fact that, despite hundreds of miles run, lunges lunged and squats thrusted, and losing enough weight that I could buy my bras in "training" sizes, I still have my grandmother's…
Long Hollow 