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Hair, or the lack thereof

9/12/11 7:47pm by BShallue
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Not wanting to be seen by anyone I knew, I ducked into a store quite a distance from our house, heading straight for the product I sought. I had been eyeing it for years, but until this moment, couldn't rouse the courage to actually buy it. Tucking the box under my arm so the name wasn't obvious, I grabbed a few more items to further hide it and headed to check-out, trying to act nonchalant about my purchase...Tom was cutting my hair. He would touch a section with scissors and then pull back, comb another section, let it fall.I sensed his frustration. "What is it?"  Read more >

Faithful Place: Not Your Average Murder Mystery

8/24/11 11:42am by BShallue
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Author Tana French hooked me with the opening paragraph of Faithful Place; her wistful and mysterious prose throughout the book kept me turning pages at a pace I haven’t maintained in decades. “In all your life, only a few minutes matter.”  Read more >

What Happened to Goodbye: A Story of Divorce Through the Eyes of a Teenage Girl

6/28/11 5:30pm by BShallue
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In What Happened to Goodbye, author Sarah Dessen takes her readers by the hand, leading them through the land of divorce as seen through the eyes of Mclean, a teenage girl who is still trying to find solid footing two years after her parents’ unexpected split.  Read more >

A Jane Austen Education: Learning About Love From a (Much) Older Woman

5/23/11 6:30pm by BShallue
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I hesitated reading A Jane Austen Education. For one thing, I've only read two of Jane Austen’s six novels. I loved the light wit and humor of Pride and Prejudice and immediately spring-boarded into Sense and Sensibility, expecting more of the same, but was so disappointed with it that I didn't even bother picking up any of the others.  Read more >

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Long Hollow

midlife, friendship, family, parenting, Empty Nest-ing with gusto

Jobs4Autism

job stories and information about jobs for individuals with autism

Confessions of a Photography Addict

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Full Name
Barbara Shallue
Member Since
December 2009
About Me: 

Let's see ... what should I say about me? Well, so far in my 52 years I've been a librarian, a welder's helper, chemical plant operator, newspaper reporter... ah, the rest are pretty boring.  They brought in a paycheck, but aren't worth mentioning otherwise.

Over and above it all, I'm a writer, a mom, a wife, a friend ... you get the picture. Those are the important things to me.

I'm an Empty Nester, living in my little corner of Paradise we call Long Hollow with my husband, two dogs and Frankie, the guinea fowl. and loving it. (Update: we recently lost Frankie. Man, do I miss that funny bird!) I write about everything (seriously ... everything!) in my blog, Long Hollow and now post photos from my latest obsession, photography, at Confessions of a Photography Addict.

But it all adds up to one thing: Life is one Big Adventure and I can't wait to see what's waiting around the next corner!

 

One little known fact about me: my husband proposed just two weeks after we met and we were married on a Friday the 13th. Yes, we're still married, going on #29.

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writer, and more ...
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Austin-ish, Texas
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empty nest, parenting, family, friendship, midlife, writing, screenwriting, midlife college, country living, health, marriage, pets, spirituality

 

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