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I Want To Show This To You.
Tricia Lott Williford
May 7, 2024
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There are things in my life that are too beautiful for words, so sacred, so layered that I can’t really…
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I Married an Alcoholic.
Tricia Lott Williford
January 19, 2024
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This holds some honest truths and rough language. Read with that awareness and without my apologies, because when you tell…
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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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On Thankfulness and Not Eloping
Tricia Lott Williford
November 3, 2022
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I have a (deeply empathic) friend who feels sorry for Thanksgiving every year. She says it gets swallowed up in…
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Dynamic Duos and “The Guy with the Hoe”
Tricia Lott Williford
October 31, 2022
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Today makes seventeen halloweens. And I have very little to do with any of it. I’m now the comfy lady…
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Gentlemen’s Academy
Tricia Lott Williford
September 19, 2021
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Somehow, I have become the mom sitting by the mirrors outside the men’s dressing room, while the sons try on…
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Forty-Two
Tricia Lott Williford
July 25, 2021
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I have turned forty-two. And so far, my senses are on hyperbolic overload with all that forty-two has already shown…
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Even When He Doesn’t: A Piece with Ann Voskamp
Tricia Lott Williford
June 21, 2021
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My husband (Peter) and I have two vastly different stories of faith miracles. He begged and pleaded with God from…
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1,826 Days: What Do I Know Now
Tricia Lott Williford
May 28, 2021
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I read somewhere, the only difference between a first marriage and a second is this: the second time, you know…
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Sexy at Sixty: Macabre and The Baltimore Orioles
Tricia Lott Williford
April 15, 2021
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Peter turned sixty yesterday, and one day in, he keeps discussing his “advanced age.” Every time I enter the room,…
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“I’ve Seen Better Legs on a Table”
Tricia Lott Williford
September 22, 2020
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I am forty-one years old. That happened this summer. I am solid in my emotional convictions about birthdays (love them)…
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Today, I Said Thank You.
Tricia Lott Williford
September 19, 2020
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Today, I said thank you to the Starbucks barista who made my Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew, even though she is…
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Ranch Dressing and Orgasms
Tricia Lott Williford
April 23, 2020
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“Mom, did you know they make ranch dressing seasoning?” one son says. “I feel like she bought that already,” says…
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Cheezits Communion
Tricia Lott Williford
April 10, 2020
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Every night, we have ice cream at 8:00. And some evenings, we have it at other times, because it’s 8:00…
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A Dog, A Commercial, and My Imaginary Friends
Tricia Lott Williford
February 28, 2020
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Peter’s talent agent booked him for his next gig. “Pete, let’s have the wife come along this time – oh,…
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The Rules of Being a Stage Mom
Tricia Lott Williford
January 28, 2020
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There are rules to this gig of Stage Mom. I’m a babe in the woods, learning as I go. For…
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Ice Storms and Lemon Pies
Tricia Lott Williford
November 29, 2019
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When your husband helps a man get his car out of the snow, and the man can’t speak English because…
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You’re Invitied to the Tattered Cover This Saturday!
Tricia Lott Williford
November 21, 2019
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If you’re in the Denver area this weekend, I’d love to see you on Saturday as The Tattered Cover at…
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Balls, Strikes, and Courage
Tricia Lott Williford
September 19, 2019
5 Comments
Just when I thought I knew my role as Baseball Mom, my boys changed their position on the field. They’re…
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The Great Wrigley Test
Tricia Lott Williford
August 30, 2019
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“So, Tricia, do you love baseball?” People ask me this question often, and I have a standard true answer: “I…
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