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The Downside of Used Books

Tricia Lott Williford April 6, 2016 5 Comments

I’m toying with an idea, but I’m not really ready to commit. Just thinking about it, so don’t go holding [...]

Who Lives In Your Phone?

Tricia Lott Williford February 11, 2016 1 Comment

When I talk to about my brother in a conversation with anyone, I have to hold my phone in my [...]

Sex and Fighting

Tricia Lott Williford February 4, 2016 No Comments

Sex and Fighting share many of the same ingredients. Heightened emotion. Communication. Give and Take. Vulnerability. Desires and wants laid bare. [...]

Better Than You Think

Tricia Lott Williford January 28, 2016 6 Comments

I leaned out the Starbucks drive-thru window to hand a drink to the customer in her car, and that’s when [...]

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I’m a Millennial Dating a Boomer

Tricia Lott Williford January 5, 2016 2 Comments

Peter is 18 years older than me, and I love this about him. Most of the time, an age difference [...]

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Four: Everybody has Somebody.

Tricia Lott Williford December 15, 2015 6 Comments

I made Mexican Queso tonight for dinner, and you would have thought the circus was coming to town for the great [...]

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Memory, Emotion, and Attraction: How I Make the Power of Scent Work For Me

Tricia Lott Williford October 12, 2015 3 Comments

I want to let you in on one of my favorite tricks. But be careful, ‘cause it’s a powerful tool. [...]

Tina Benner: The Hit-and-Run on Our Way To School

Tricia Lott Williford September 30, 2015 1 Comment

I saw a woman’s running shoe on the side of the road. You know how sometimes that happens, when you [...]

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A Love Note To Single Moms

Tricia Lott Williford August 28, 2015 No Comments

I never intended to be a single mom, but then I guess not many of us in this tribe aimed [...]

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Man’s Perspective: Like Rubies in my Pocket

Tricia Lott Williford July 14, 2015 1 Comment

“How great it is to belong to the beautiful half of society?” Well, now there’s a question. I didn’t even [...]

Fresh Bouquets of Kindness, Dried Leaves of the Opposite

Tricia Lott Williford July 6, 2015 4 Comments

I have seen an unusual potency of kindness and unkindness in the last couple of weeks. I suppose they are [...]

Tender Heart, Rainy Day

Tricia Lott Williford May 9, 2015 No Comments

A book was born this week. If there were birth announcements for such things, it might read, “Weighing in at [...]

“I mean, feel guilty if you want to.”

Tricia Lott Williford March 11, 2015 No Comments

I’m pretty sure I was teetering under the weight of everything I carried into my mom’s house – the carseat, [...]

If I Liked Something About This

Tricia Lott Williford February 19, 2015 10 Comments

I read about an artist who teaches art appreciation by asking students to engage a piece with this mentality: If [...]

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“Do You Miss Having Sex?”

Tricia Lott Williford February 16, 2015 14 Comments

“Tricia, do you miss having sex?” I get this question on occasion, always preceded by, “I hope this isn’t too [...]

The Thing About Reassurance

Tricia Lott Williford January 18, 2015 2 Comments

I think Reassurance can be a lot like money. There will never be enough of it. Likes. Approvals. Confidence. Affirmations. [...]

The Things We Might Say

Tricia Lott Williford November 24, 2014 1 Comment

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

This Is What It’s About. This Right Here.

Tricia Lott Williford November 17, 2014 11 Comments

It was bedtime, and together we were reading the story of Abraham and Isaac from The Jesus Storybook Bible. I [...]

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Lone Aspen Tree

Tricia Lott Williford November 4, 2014 No Comments

Lone Aspen Tree. She probably thinks she’s the odd one, all alone out there in a sea of sameness. Little [...]

Creative Thinking And Brainstorming Ideas

Confessions of an External Processor

Tricia Lott Williford October 14, 2014 2 Comments

I am an external processor. I think out loud. If there’s something I’m thinking through, I can see through the [...]

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