Long Hollow

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Category: Sweet!

  • A Brother’s Smile and other (belated) “Sweet!”s of the Week

    The day his wife died, my brother Donnie lost his smile. Well, he lost more than that; with just a glance at his drawn face, it was easy to believe he thought the world held absolutely nothing for him anymore. If it weren't for his children, I think he would have just sat in a corner…

  • Two Sweet Decades

    A new era began for me today.  At 6:59 this evening, my baby girl turned twenty years old, ushering me out of a twelve year stint in that fun club, "Mother of Teenagers." Now I belong to "Mother of Just Twenty-somethings." I think I'll stop keeping track after this. It makes me feel old. I…

  • He Knows Me So Well (and Saturday’s Week of Sweet!s)

    Tom's email read "I saw this and thought of you," with a hyperlink under the message. My heart fluttered – he thought of me while he was at work? How sweet! Tom never emails me unless it's a two-word response to something I've sent him. I clicked the link and laughed when the page popped…

  • Saturday’s “Sweet!”s on Sunday

    Years and years ago, I worked weekends, the natural consequence of rotating twelve hour shifts. First one weekend of nights, then one weekend of days and finally! two weekends free. I hated it. Once I quit, I never, ever wanted to tie up my weekends like that again, but here I am, twenty years later, trying…

  • A Sweet Saturday on a Diva Weekend

    While you sit where ever you sit on Saturday mornings, reading this, I'm soaking my drought-dusty body in the cool water of a friend's backyard pool, frozen margarita in hand. This is a Diva weekend, when girls I grew up with congregrate to catch up on each other's lives in a way that Facebook and…

  • Puppy Dog Mornings (and a week of sweets)

    I follow a certain ritual almost every morning, finding a spiritual, mental and physical balance that goes completely out of whack the rest of the day… I begin at the kitchen table, enjoying a first cup of coffee and my healthy cereal (topped with blueberries and Greek yogurt) while reading something inspirational. Right now it's…

  • Sweets on a Saturday and (another) belated Friday Favorite Photo

    I have a good excuse for posting my favorite photos of the week today instead of yesterday… I spent yesterday morning on the University of Texas campus, snapping photo after photo of Daniel dressed in his graduation robe and cap in front of the Tower, the Littlefield Fountain, Battle Hall, a row of beautiful old…

  • Rising Up, Grateful (plus some “Sweet!” moments and a belated Friday Favorite Photo)

    Do you ever have those mornings when you're so mentally drained or physically tired you just want to pull the covers up over your head and skip that day altogether? I do. Not often anymore, but I still do every once in a while. On those mornings I remind myself that each and every day,…

  • Never Give Up (and Another Sweet Saturday)

    My bougainvilla is blooming. It might not seem like a big deal, but in this dry hollow where the wildflowers are fading, I longed for a blast of color. I thought it was too late, thought I'd been too neglectful. The original blossoms were long gone; it wasn't dead, but it was down to mere…

  • A Sweet Saturday (and my Friday Favorite Photo)

    Last night we heard our middle son's name called, watched as he walked across a stage in his cap, gown and stole, watched him shake hands and receive a piece of paper that essentially read "Congratulations! You did it!" That's why I waited until today to post my Friday Favorite Photo… Congratulations, Daniel!!! We're so…