Long Hollow

Where seeds of thought have room to grow

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Realtor, writer, blogger in Austin, TX

Category: Spinning Plates

  • Weary Travelers – Weary Mom (and Happy St. Patrick’s Day!)

    I've been home alone for the past few days, holding down the fort, while the rest of my bunch have been out having Spring Break fun. I didn't begrudge them heading out for fun and adventure while I had to work – I take an annual Fall Break, an escape to the coast with girlfriends.…

  • March Winds and Loose Ends

    The March wind is up early this morning, rushing through the Hollow, as if it were cleaning house, preparing for April.  And I feel like I'm a leaf caught up in the wind, spinning this way and that. I'm not complaining. I'm just having a tough time finding the ground again. I'm feeling dizzy from…

  • Cinnamon Toast and Puzzle Pieces

    Last night, just as I was about to drift off to sleep, I swear I smelled cinnamon toast. You know that kind where you put four globs of butter on a slice of white bread, then sprinkle cinnamon all over it and finally, cover the whole thing in sugar and toast it in a small…

  • Happy birthday, Elvis!

    Today I have baked blueberry muffins, taken the puppies for a long walk, snapped tons of photos (and learned a little more about my camera), made a huge dent in the laundry, grocery-shopped, answered several emails and even fit in an hour-long work-out … so why do I feel I haven't accomplished anything? It's like…

  • Balance

    Silly me. I'm longing for balance in my life, between work and play, book and blog, drums and laundry, sleep and wakefulness … but I envisioned this balance as a stagnant thing, like evenly weighed scales. Boring. Life is about moving, and now I realize balance is a verb, a see-saw in constant motion, each…

  • 2011, so far…

    Whew. Is it just me, or is this year already going by too fast?  The tree is down, bills are paid, my desk is clean, but Christmas ornaments are scattered around the livingroom, dirty dishes fill the sink, laundry is waiting to be folded, my email inbox is inundated, and I haven't blogged in two…

  • It’s Christmas Eve-Eve

    Up until today, I've managed to miss out on all of that holiday stress that's hitting so many people. We're not really doing gifts, so I haven't worried about that. Lord knows we don't need all the calories from fresh baked cookies, so I haven't started baking yet (we'd eat them all, and I'd have…

  • Meetings

    I had to go to a meeting tonight. In another life, I had at least one meeting almost every night of the week, and sometimes during the day. Meetings go hand-in-hand with volunteering, and I was pretty much a professional volunteer and community busy-body… There were PTA meetings, PTA officer meetings, Room Parent meetings, Site-Based…

  • Friday Favorite Photos – Still Running and Playing

    I pick these two photos as my favorites because take a look at Max – in the first one, he's running! And in the second one, I caught him mid-prance, playing with his puppy, Belle (you can see a bit of her in the foreground.) It hasn't been more than a month that we thought…

  • A Not-So-Unproductive Weekend

    I had big plans for this weekend. BIG plans. Number one on the list: getting caught up on my sleep. Next, I planned to get caught up on my book. It only took me a few days to fall short of my 1500 words/day writing goal. Mostly because my body refused to put up with…