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Forty, Please.

Tricia Lott Williford June 4, 2018 8 Comments

“I think I’m going to turn forty this summer.” “No, you’re not,” says my mom, who – of all people [...]

Mission Hills on Mother’s Day: You Can Do This

Tricia Lott Williford May 11, 2018 No Comments

I’ll be there all weekend – with Peter, books, hugs, words, and heaps of Love for all the moms. [...]

Put it in the Pie Hole, Valentine.

Tricia Lott Williford February 14, 2018 1 Comment

I chose to be a hands-off, loosely-nearby supervisor of the Valentines boxes and cards this year. As Jen Hatmaker wrote [...]

Well, I’m in love with a hammock.

Tricia Lott Williford July 29, 2017 2 Comments

You guys, I got a hammock for my birthday. I’m probably never getting out of it. I slept in it last [...]

Thank you, Ocean.

Tricia Lott Williford July 10, 2017 6 Comments

Thank you – Sand and ocean, Sweet ice cream and salty kisses, Sandy toes and freckled shoulders, Big ideas and [...]

Unresolutions, Words, and Commitment Issues

Tricia Lott Williford December 31, 2016 No Comments

“How long have you been choosing a word for the year?” my brother texted me. I had just published this [...]

Overcome by Healing

Tricia Lott Williford December 23, 2016 No Comments

There’s a story in the New Testament that has made me angry for a lot of years. It’s the story [...]

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To Dance with Joy

Tricia Lott Williford December 20, 2016 No Comments

It was a blustery Ohio winter, and it was my first experience teaching kindergarten. There’s so much to love about [...]

Communion with Emmanuel

Tricia Lott Williford December 18, 2016 1 Comment

Sometimes I struggle to direct my thoughts during Communion. It’s such a profound, holy moment, kind of high pressure. Think [...]

A Gift for You: My Grandpa’s Fudge

Tricia Lott Williford December 17, 2016 No Comments

My grandparents made fudge so often that they became known for it. They brought it as housewarming gifts. They served [...]

Trauma, Triggers, and Marriage: Hello, December.

Tricia Lott Williford December 12, 2016 No Comments

I’m going along, minding my own business, creating this new and beautiful life just the way I want it to [...]

Helicopters, Cattle, and Neapolitan Ice Cream

Tricia Lott Williford November 25, 2016 No Comments

Snippets of dialogue at our Thanksgiving table. Characters: Me, Peter, Tucker, Tyler, my Mom, and my Dad. (But characters are [...]

I’m in Love with a Train Conductor

Tricia Lott Williford November 19, 2016 No Comments

Tyler and Peter are acting in the Polar Express at the Colorado Railroad Museum this holiday season. The show happens [...]

And so it is Easter

Tricia Lott Williford March 27, 2016 1 Comment

And so it is Easter. It’s the day of all days, the day that makes everything else well and good. [...]

Driving Home on Christmas Day

Tricia Lott Williford December 30, 2015 11 Comments

We were driving home from my parents’ house at the end of Christmas Day. It was late at night, and [...]

Christmas Eve: I Have A Song

Tricia Lott Williford December 24, 2015 7 Comments

Yesterday morning, I poured myself a cup of coffee, and I settled in with my journal, my Bible, my pens, [...]

Between Past Pain and Redeemed Love: December 22

Tricia Lott Williford December 22, 2015 4 Comments

Words are living things in my imagination. Some of them are bubble cartoon fonts or rigid block letters or splashy [...]

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There Are Things I Haven’t Told You

Tricia Lott Williford November 1, 2015 1 Comment

I have a photo of the Last Halloween. The boys are five and three years old, and they are dressed [...]

A Happy Birthday Welcome to the Number 36

Tricia Lott Williford July 24, 2015 3 Comments

Good morning, 36. This might be the happiest greeting you’ve ever received, you happy little even number on the upside [...]

On Father’s Day

Tricia Lott Williford June 21, 2015 3 Comments

Sometimes there just aren’t words.

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