Hugh Hollowell

Yesterday was Renee’s birthday and, honestly, it was not going so well. You see, she was in the hospital after a weekend of scary heart issues and she was a bit depressed at the prospect of spending her birthday in the hospital.
Around noon, some friends of our stopped by and that cheered her up. Then [...]

Right now Renee and I are sitting in the Emergency Room at Wake Med. Her heart started doing weird things early this morning and when they did not stop, we came on in to the hospital. Something similar happened back in January, resulting in surgery and a weeklong stay in the hospital, so we were [...]

I have adjusted well to living here in Raleigh. The weather is nice, the people are friendly and while they don’t eat real bar-b-que, overall the food is good. However, last week I had a huge, overwhelming feeling of homesickness.
I smelled honeysuckle.
I had commented several times on how I had not seen any honeysuckle here. [...]

Last night, I joined Reunion.com. They had a simple form where they offered to scan my address book and tell me if any of my contacts were also members of the site. No big deal, all the social sites do this…
However, what I did not know, because of a poorly worded website, was that if [...]

The last few days have been hard. Without going into too much detail, I found out Monday morning, via email, that someone who was once very important to me had died over the weekend.
I did not even know she had been sick.
Life can be a cruel bastard, sneaking up on you like that. The doubts, [...]

I tend to be very NOT political. Politicians do what they do, and being mad about that is sorta like being mad the grass is green.
When I was a small lad, (I think it was the 1980 presidential election) I remember asking my mom who she had just cast her vote for, and she told [...]

I have known her for years. The day I first met her, we went to eat supper at Dino’s, my favorite Italian dive in the whole world and drank wine (which we brought with us) from water glasses (which Dino’s provided). The thing I remember most about that meal was laughing.
She is one of those [...]

I signed up almost a year ago, when all the other cool kids did, and then promptly forgot all about it.  Recently several friends signed up and found me there, so I have looked into it more.  I think I will play. (If you do not know what Twitter is, that no doubt means you [...]

What a gang, huh?

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 [...]