by Hollye Dexter | Feb 10, 2020 | Articles
Anyone who has only come to know me in the past few years wouldn’t know that I used to write a blog that was uplifting and hopeful. When these old writings pop up on my Facebook memories, I’m shocked. I think to myself, “I used to think that way? What’s happened to...
by Hollye Dexter | Feb 1, 2019 | Birmingham High School, Daniel Pearl, Daniel Pearl Magnet
It’s always a perfectly ordinary day when fate delivers its most crushing blows, and that’s the way it was that sunny, January morning. I was walking into the supermarket with my husband Troy, drinking a cup of coffee, when I picked up the L.A. Times. The picture on...
by Hollye Dexter | Jul 27, 2018 | #tinystories, family, fire, Fire Season, motherhood, parenthood, parenting, self trust, surviving catastrophe, surviving fire
How many times had you crept into their rooms at night and pressed your face against them to hear the soft hiss of baby breathing, to feel that warm, sweet milky breath in your ear, always needing that reassurance that yes, mama, those babies in your care are strong...
by Hollye Dexter | Jul 27, 2018 | #tinystories, Dan Haggerty, dysfunctional family, family relationships, Grizzly Adams
The sound of motorcycles revving in the driveway meant that Uncle Dan was home, and with him came the entourage. One by one they pulled in, taking their place in Dan’s court. He’d sit in his King Louie throne in the living room, and maybe his pet owl...
by Hollye Dexter | Apr 12, 2018 | #resist, Barack Obama, Ellen Degeneres, hope through adversity, marriage equality, Oprah, Societal Woes
These days, I wake in the morning weary with sadness. The world, politics, fear for my country has worn me down. But then, this morning as my kid is eating breakfast, I see Ellen Degeneres on the back of his cereal box, and I feel hope. Ten years ago, we...