Hugh Hollowell

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars….Jack [...]

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. - Thomas Mann

My friend T has a 12 year old daughter, K, whose art class participated this weekend in GroundSpark, which is a small part of Raleigh’s SparkCon. Groundspark was a sidewalk painting contest, where about 100 teams drew sidewalk art for cash and prizes.
The weather was nice and breezy, but being out on the [...]

 A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult (Proverbs 12:16).
For my parent’s generation, Walter Cronkite represented the voice of truth; for me, it was Mr. Rogers.
I always liked him, how his steady, even paced voice calmed you and led you to believe everything would be OK; how his ritual [...]

I hate MySpace. I really do. It has a clunky interface, the “blogging” function is horrible and it has taught a generation of people to use the word “blog” incorrectly.
That being said, it does have the real estate. Almost once a month or so someone from my past who I want to talk to finds [...]

I uploaded some pictures of Raleigh to my Flickr account. Anyone can view them, but if you have a free yahoo.com account you can sign into Flickr with that and leave comments.
Raleigh Pictures 

I saw her in Moore Square today; I thought it was just hilarious.

(no handicapped people were injured in the taking of this picture) 
 

The astute among you may have noticed already, but today I remodeled my website and gave this blog a new header.
The website is a work in progress, so be gentle with criticism.
Further, in the “it never fails” department, while futzing around with my own website, a paying client actually asked me to do paid writing [...]

Well, one week ago today I left for Raleigh, and one week ago yesterday I closed my bookstore in Memphis for the last time.  It feels very weird not having a shop for the first time in nearly five years. I keep feeling guilty for sitting in a coffee shop, writing on my laptop.  My [...]

Something I wrestle with constantly.
Check out the video and let me know what you think.