Long Hollow

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Realtor, writer, blogger in Austin, TX

Category: Worthy Causes

  • Being a Mom…and sweet!s of the week

    For most of this day, I sat at my kitchen table, close to all of my kids plus my mom, constantly giving thanks that I could do so. I can't think of a better way to spend Mother's Day. I am blessed and I know it.    "I got to grow up with a mother…

  • Galas, Volunteering, Photography and other Sweet!s

    Last night I spent hours with a camera around my neck, stalking guests at the local Women's Club fundraising gala. Now, mind you, it's pretty standard for me to have my camera hanging around my neck at any function I attend…well, anywhere I go… but last night was different: instead of complaining about me taking…

  • Daughters-in-Law and other sweet!s

    Yesterday I drove to the other side of Austin to wish my daughter-in-law a happy birthday in person for the first time, grateful that they finally live close enough that I can do that. It comes in handy for someone like me who always forgets to put birthday cards in the mail in time to…

  • Thanksgiving Comes First

    This is a repost. I hope one day I can stop reposting it…   Halloween is behind us. According to the calendar, the next holiday here in the states is Veteran's Day, followed by Thanksgiving, but have you noticed there are already Christmas commercials on the TV and jingle bells are taking over the stores?…

  • Dona Nobis Pacem

    "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. "   ~Mother Teresa   Today is the 10th Blog Blast for Peace Day, a worldwide plead for peace…a responsibility not put on governments alone, but on each one of us.  Dona Nobis Pacem…grant us peace. We are the seeds…

  • Five Things on Friday

        1. Wildflowers are blooming like it's springtime instead of autumn. Plants I thought had died are sprouting blossoms again. Maybe it's like this every year, and I just forget. That's okay. I love the surprise of it! 2. Waller Creek runs through Austin down to Lady Bird Lake. Near downtown, it's dirty, stinky,…

  • Five Things from La-La Land

    Linking with A Rural Journal's Random 5 Friday    1.    This card, full of words of love and encouragement and inspiration, waited for me in the mailbox earlier this week, a precious gift from my friend Rae.  How could I not share them with you, because the words are true for all of us,…

  • Labor(er)s of Love

    I had fifteen minutes before my meeting started. A guest was going to be telling us about a project he had initiated. I wanted to get a look at it beforehand, so I arrived early – for once – and headed to the woods behind the church with my camera. …At least, there used to…

  • Who can resist purr-ty faces like these?

      A blogger friend of mine named Joan can't, and when she offered these cards for sale to support the work she does with strays in Greece, I couldn't resist them, either. The purr-ty faces you see are just a few of the cats whose lives she has made better in some way. Read about…

  • Thanksgiving Comes First

    Halloween is behind us. According to the calendar, the next holiday here in the states is Veteran's Day, followed by Thanksgiving, but have you noticed there are already Christmas commercials on the TV and jingle bells are taking over the stores? For the third year in a row, I'm joining blogger "Suldog" Jim Sullivan in…