Hollye Dexter
Mom. Author. Singer. Rabble-Rouser.
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WE DID IT! Made over our yard for pennies (and a lot of sweat)!

by Hollye Dexter | Aug 3, 2011 | Budget landscape, DIY landscaping, DIY yard makeover, xeriscaping, yard makeover on a budget

BEFORE:Our yard a year after the septic disaster of 2010.Neglected…sad….lifeless. A depressing reminder of a crappy year (literally). Finally, Troy and I got sick of waiting for something to change. We didn’t have the money to hire someone, we...

Reclaiming My Yard, Reclaiming My Life

by Hollye Dexter | Jul 9, 2011 | DIY xeriscaping, DIY yard makeover, yard makeover, yard makeover on a budget

On Tuesday, I sat with my fingers poised above the keyboard for hours, but nothing came out. I was stuck. And that’s because something in my life was stuck. I looked out the window at the barren sad landscape that used to be my yard, a place Evan played and we had...

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About Hollye

Hollye Dexter is author of the memoir Fire Season (She Writes Press, 2015) and co-editor of Dancing at the Shame Prom (Seal Press). Called “moving” and “inspiring on so many levels” by FIRST FOR WOMEN Magazine, Fire Season was also an NIEA finalist for BEST MEMOIR. Hollye’s essays and articles about women’s issues, activism and parenting have been published in anthologies as well as in Maria Shriver’s Architects of Change, Huffington Post, The Feminist Wire, Writer’s Digest and more. In 2003, she founded the award-winning nonprofit Art and Soul, running arts workshops for teenagers in the foster care system.

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