Hugh Hollowell

For Christmas, some friends gave me a gift card to Borders Books. Me being me, I wasted no time in running up there and buying a book I had had my eye on, but was reluctant to shell out my hard earned (and largly absent) cash for. Now I wish I had bought this book [...]

Lots of you know I work with the homeless.
Here is a great example of what I do, day to day. Not all days are this emotional; some are much worse.
Get the story here.

I have a small confession: I am a bit depressed right now.
Not serious, lay on the couch and cry all day depression (although that is always a fear: Been there, done that) but a more overall malaise.
Part of it is the holidays and knowing I will not be at my parent’s for Christmas (I think [...]

Just a quick post to let everyone know I am OK. I have been way behind with work and have just now managed to surface.
By the way, many of you know this, but I do blog other places around the internet, so if I do not post something here, it does not mean I am [...]

Bill the other night mentioned that he did not know much about St. Nicholas and said, jokingly, that if anyone did, it was Hugh…
I don’t know much, but I do know he has more in common with Ghandi and Martin Luther King and Jesus than he does the Comercial Santa we see every year. You [...]

What a gang, huh?

Christmas is my favorite holiday. (However, this does NOT mean I like Christmas music. I think there are only about 10 Christmas songs, and every radio station plays them over and over and over…)
As a kid, I am ashamed to say, more often then not it was all about the gifts. Even then, however, [...]

I was talking to a friend while in Memphis and I would mention this person or that person and, ineveitably, it would be in context of some cool thing they do. Finally she gave a sound of frustration and demanded to know how I know so many cool people.
Like, for example, my friend Pete who [...]