Hugh Hollowell

Well, I told you last week that this week I would tell you all about the big news I have been talking around for a while now. The big news is…
I am moving to the Raleigh/ Durham area of North Carolina. Yes, that is right; after nearly 14 years of living here in Memphis, [...]

An early mentor of mine told me that no one cares how I feel, only what I do. While it seems harsh, it is pretty much the truth. While it might be nice that I love my dog, what matters is that I feed my dog. It might be nice that I like my employees, [...]

My Brother Jimmy is a proud Papa now, with Mr. Carter James (see below) having been born on the 24th of June. Here he is from a few days back.

I know I have been a bit morose of late, and I want to apologize. I have a lot going on right now and I am trying to process it all. Also, I have the “Big News” I mentioned in the Friends post that I am still dealing with. (By the way, sometime early next [...]

He had lied about his age to go in the Army and ended up flying planes, the Snoopy sort, with open cockpits and goggles and long scarves. After the war he came back to the States, traveled with an air show for a while as a barnstormer and eventually settled down in North Texas, married [...]

Last night, I had this dream…
My brother Jimmy and I were riding around Memphis in a mid 1980’s Green Oldsmobile. We stopped at this coffee shop and hung out for a bit, but when Jimmy got up and went to the restroom, I left him there and went driving again.
I remember I had to be [...]

I was just sitting here, reading over some of my past posts ( my insomnia is acting up) and realized it is just over a month since I started this blog.
25 posts later, it is still a blast. I have blogged for years, but never just for fun. It was always to market a business, [...]

I have big, no, huge things going on right now. And I very much want to tell you about it.
The problem is, there are about 10 people who I desperately want to tell about it face to face. I do not want them to read about it on my blog, hear it from a third [...]

I suppose we have all had the experience of a door irrevocably closing, such as…

An old lover marries
Someone you love dies before you tell them how you feel
The restaurant you carried your first date to closes
They tear down the house you grew up in

Yesterday, a door closed for me. In all honesty, it was already [...]

I am an email addict.
I belong to a ton of industry forums, several Memphis area mailing lists and have all the usual business email, orders, and so on. In all, I have some 100-200 emails in my inbox, every day.
The one thing that strikes me is how many of them are simply… unreadable.
Here, in no [...]