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The Goal: To Love Anything This Much
Tricia Lott Williford
January 3, 2026
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It’s the season of thrifting, and this has put me in a pensive and thoughtful place. When I go thrifting,…
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Why It Takes So Long
Tricia Lott Williford
December 23, 2025
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When death comes at the end of a long life, we don’t wonder if it was time. We don’t wonder…
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Books & Diane Keaton
Tricia Lott Williford
October 12, 2025
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On the long list of things I love, there are two strong themes: Books and Diane Keaton. About ten years…
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Tree Trunks
Tricia Lott Williford
September 22, 2025
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I am forty-six years old, and since I am finally the age that I am, I feel old enough to…
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On Cooking
Tricia Lott Williford
December 28, 2024
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“I do not cook,” I have often said in the last couple of years. I allowed that this could be…
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The Summer I Fell In Love
Tricia Lott Williford
August 3, 2024
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Once upon a summertime, my youngest cousins and I were looking for something to do. It was on a long…
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Food Courts and School Buses: An Abstract Pondering
Tricia Lott Williford
January 6, 2024
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Seating is so limited at the mall today that people have resorted to sharing tables with strangers. How very…
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The Power of “This.”
Tricia Lott Williford
May 26, 2023
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Significance is a desire within us, a birthright. We each long to matter, to be extraordinary, to be outstanding, to…
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The Worst Dog I Ever Had
Tricia Lott Williford
May 17, 2023
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“We rescued him from the mall.” That’s what I always say to describe how he came to be ours. In…
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That’s Not Everything About Her
Tricia Lott Williford
February 14, 2023
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We had just introduced ourselves, this group of people who would share the day together. They’re somewhere in between learning…
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Names I Can’t Say Yet
Tricia Lott Williford
February 10, 2023
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I have students whose names I cannot pronounce yet. I’ve never learned how to read these collections of letters. When…
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A Thousand Small, Glittering Kindnesses
Tricia Lott Williford
December 23, 2022
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Today, I’ve been thinking about the time when we were on a layover at the airport and a young man…
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The Champions of December: A Love Note to the Teachers
Tricia Lott Williford
December 13, 2022
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Let’s talk about who’s really killing it during the month of December: The Teachers. They’re planning units that are the…
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Listen, I Know It Wasn’t Safe.
Tricia Lott Williford
November 4, 2022
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I was driving home on a cold November evening, when I pulled up to a stoplight at a busy intersection.…
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A Voice and A Choice
Tricia Lott Williford
November 2, 2022
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“Tricia, this weekend we will be spending time with a ten-year-old boy whose mom died recently. What cues do you…
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Just Create: A Myth About Christian Art
Tricia Lott Williford
October 29, 2022
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What’s the deal with Christian art? Why is some of it – most of it – so boring, so two-dimensional?…
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Thanks a lot, Eve.
Tricia Lott Williford
October 28, 2022
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I know Eve’s story. So do you. She’s the reason we have mosquito bites and skin cancer and miscarriages and…
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Juggling the Glass and the Plastic
Tricia Lott Williford
October 21, 2022
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I read recently about an interview with author Nora Roberts, where someone asked her how to balance writing and kids.…
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Freedom, Tight Shoes, and Green Beans from the Freezer
Tricia Lott Williford
August 12, 2022
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On my birthday, I exhaled into a new word: Freedom. For nearly three weeks of my new age of 43,…
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The Caboose and the Lantern Rouge
Tricia Lott Williford
April 5, 2022
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I have always been the caboose, always at the end of the line putting all my people in front of…
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