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Cokes and Pizza and Mascara and High-Fives

Tricia Lott Williford July 20, 2024 No Comments

“Write about a time when you got exactly what you wanted.” Coke cans in the fridge and pizza boxes on…

Winning and Losing and Driving Away

Tricia Lott Williford May 29, 2024 No Comments

When you go enter a car dealership, you have to know you’re going to be on the losing end of…

I Want To Show This To You.

Tricia Lott Williford May 7, 2024 1 Comment

There are things in my life that are too beautiful for words, so sacred, so layered that I can’t really…

Oh, Prom. You Mess With My Heart.

Tricia Lott Williford April 20, 2024 No Comments

I found out on Tuesday that prom was happening. I mean, I knew prom was happening, the same way…

We Call Her Big Mama

Tricia Lott Williford May 20, 2023 2 Comments

We call her Big Mama, and sometimes Mama Cass. She is the giant red umbrella that shades our patio during…

This Mom, Other Moms, Shining Stars and State Testing

Tricia Lott Williford March 26, 2023 2 Comments

“Mom, can you opt us out of the state testing?” “Why?” “Because some other moms are doing that.” “Maybe they…

Slaps.

Tricia Lott Williford December 7, 2022 No Comments

Our family schedule now allows for exactly two dinners together each week. Two nights a week, I pull out all…

Baby Ben, a Digital Robot, & My First Go at Grandparenting

Tricia Lott Williford November 18, 2022 No Comments

My memory-keeper apps brought up this story from a year ago, when we got to know Baby Ben the digital…

Too Soon for Neuter Jokes, Mom.

Tricia Lott Williford November 9, 2022 1 Comment

The puppies were spayed and neutered yesterday. Molly’s was laparoscopic, two small incisions, so she seems to be doing well.…

Widows and Chick-fil-A Sauce

Tricia Lott Williford August 15, 2022 2 Comments

There’s a widow in our community whom I have long known from afar. I wrote an open letter to her…

Freedom, Tight Shoes, and Green Beans from the Freezer

Tricia Lott Williford August 12, 2022 6 Comments

On my birthday, I exhaled into a new word: Freedom. For nearly three weeks of my new age of 43,…

Baby Ben, a Digital Robot, & My First Go at Grandparenting

Tricia Lott Williford November 18, 2021 4 Comments

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this recently, but Tuck is in tenth grade. He has far surpassed my height,…

Gentlemen’s Academy

Tricia Lott Williford September 19, 2021 8 Comments

Somehow, I have become the mom sitting by the mirrors outside the men’s dressing room, while the sons try on…

The Things We Might Say

Tricia Lott Williford September 14, 2021 4 Comments

If she tells you she wishes her car got better gas mileage, that doesn’t mean she wishes she’d never learned…

Forty-Two

Tricia Lott Williford July 25, 2021 4 Comments

I have turned forty-two. And so far, my senses are on hyperbolic overload with all that forty-two has already shown…

The Naked Movie

Tricia Lott Williford June 22, 2021 1 Comment

I am writing in the library today. A mom and her little girl – probably four years old – walked…

Sears Portraits and Mother’s Day, circa 1997

Tricia Lott Williford May 9, 2021 No Comments

“All I want for Mother’s Day is a picture of my kids,” she told us. Well, that’s simple enough. Plus,…

Easter Baskets. I Can Talk About It Now.

Tricia Lott Williford April 9, 2021 4 Comments

I made a fatal error this week. Its name is Easter Baskets. For a while I couldn’t talk about it,…

Today, I Said Thank You.

Tricia Lott Williford September 19, 2020 19 Comments

Today, I said thank you to the Starbucks barista who made my Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew, even though she is…

Locked in a Bedroom: A Good Friday Gone Wrong

Tricia Lott Williford April 8, 2020 2 Comments

It’s been more than a decade since this Good Friday situation, the day Baby Tyler locked Toddler Tucker and me…

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