Long Hollow

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Realtor, writer, blogger in Austin, TX

Category: Spinning Plates

  • On November (and my Sweet! Report)

    Today is the fifth of November. How can that be? Does anyone else feel the swoosh of time flying by?  If I'm not careful, with just a blink it will be December Eve. November is full of writing challenges – novel writing, nonfiction writing, blogging… Why? Who decided this was a month to focus on writing?…

  • Ambience Lost

        Writers, especially those trying to write at a desktop in the middle of the livingroom in a houseful of people, know you have to learn to tune everything out around you. And anyone who works from home and hopes to accomplish anything at all has to learn to ignore laundry, dishes, dust… I've…

  • Finding the Rhythm

    This morning the sun's red-orange fingertips barely touched the horizon when I stepped out onto the road for my walk. Belle and Max, prancing in the pre-dawn darkness just beyond the French doors, had convinced me not to wait until daylight. A rowdy wind whipped down the road, whistling through the trees and playing with…

  • Out of Focus (and my Weekly Sweet! List)

    I dropped off my camera last Thursday for some much needed TLC. It was way overdue. Just imagine… four years of trips to the beach and walks down my dusty road. Oh, poor, neglected thing.  When I finally had it back in my hands, I expected it to work like it was brand new. Instead,…

  • Sweets and Balance on a Catch-Up Sunday

    Just trying to catch my balance! I worked twelve hours yesterday for the first time in twenty years. (I'm talking about paid work, not parenting or household work, from which you never actually clock-out, am I right?…) Anyway, each year volunteers respond to the call when it's time to harvest the grapes at the vineyard.…

  • Sweets in a busy week

    For some reason, I thought this past week would have more time in it.  I thought by the time I headed to work at the Bistro this morning, I would be all caught up on everything, plus perhaps even a little ahead on a few things. Well, I wasn't. But I refuse to give myself…

  • At times

    With mere minutes to spare (I thought) I hit the send button, catapulting my She Writes submission just under the deadline wire.  Turns out I had four hours left – Tom and I both weren't thinking straight on the Pacific vs. East Coast time thing – but that's okay. If I'd known I had the…

  • Detours (and my Friday Favorite Photo)

    This has been one crazy, zig-zagging, bouncing, stretching-myself-across-so-many-things-I-think-I'm-going-to-pop kind of week. One of those weeks where everything is high priority and you just can't procrastinate any longer. So you just do it all, period, and try your best to get some sleep. Things like a writing deadline, a book review deadline, a contact list to…

  • Tenacity

    "Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live." ~JIm RohnAmerican motivational speaker, 20th century   I didn't feel like running yesterday morning. Too many things to do before work and not enough sleep the night before. Skipping one day won't matter… I ignored that voice. It's true my world doesn't…

  • 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…