WELCOME to Holley's Hollow!

I update this website from time to time, so please check in every now and then.  Check out my "Holleyblogs" to read the talk I gave on March 15th, 2009 at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Fort Myers.  It has been a joy to be part of the congregation here in SW Florida.

Last year my life partner, Liz and I had the blessed fortune to travel to many amazing places on the planet.  We visited South America, New Zealand,  Australia, Canada and many parts of the US, including our beloved sanctuary in the Santa Cruz Mountains, WindTree. Last Spring brought a near disaster to WindTree, but by what seemed to be a miracle, most of our cabins and the council lodge there were spared from the raging Loma Prieta fires.  In the fall of 2007 we planted a 10 redwood Peacepole at our highest lookout on the land.  I had "May Peace Prevail On Earth" in eight languages engraved on each side. All the trees around it burned down in the fire, but the Peacepole survived! I posted more about that on my blog page and you can read about it there. (Holleyblogs)

Last June, I had major neck and back surgery which was necessary and lifesaving, but very painful to recover from.  My days of delivering babies are over, and I hve mourned this loss of part of my life path. However, I have started new job working with the County Health Department Healthy Start Program. I am pleased to be once again working with new moms and babies.

This website is dedicated to my father Patrick Thomas Rauen, who passed away Feb 7, 2005.  I miss him dearly and am erecting a memorial site in his honor.  I am so grateful that in the last years of his life we had the opportunity to grow close and begin to understand each other. The links to his page and my mother's art pages are posted below.

My original website is still up and linked to pages of this site.  I have not been able to access it to edit or update it, so it remains the same, typos and all.  HOLLEY'S HOLLOW #1 does contain a lot of good stuff:  Photography, Midwifery Pages, Ancestry Research and the "Earth and Spirit" pages, so check it out if you have a lot of time on your hands.