Table for Two Tricia Lott Williford August 9, 2024 2 Comments My first real responsibility in our family was to learn to set the table. The table was the most important… Read more
The Summer I Fell In Love Tricia Lott Williford August 3, 2024 No Comments Once upon a summertime, my youngest cousins and I were looking for something to do. It was on a long… Read more
A Thousand Small, Glittering Kindnesses Tricia Lott Williford December 23, 2022 No Comments Today, I’ve been thinking about the time when we were on a layover at the airport and a young man… Read more
A Voice and A Choice Tricia Lott Williford November 2, 2022 3 Comments “Tricia, this weekend we will be spending time with a ten-year-old boy whose mom died recently. What cues do you… Read more
“Favored.” Tricia Lott Williford December 22, 2021 7 Comments My first husband died eleven years ago, on the morning of December 23, 2010. In the days to follow, I… Read more
Halloweens Past: I’m the Cozy Sweatered Lady Now Tricia Lott Williford October 31, 2021 1 Comment I’m feeling the wonder of autumn tonight. (It’s probably because peeling apples makes me feel like a domestic goddess. I… Read more
The Great Denim Skirt Debate of 1993 Tricia Lott Williford November 15, 2020 3 Comments Everybody who becomes an adult has to be fourteen once, and it’s a rough time of transition for everybody involved… Read more
Cheezits Communion Tricia Lott Williford April 10, 2020 7 Comments Every night, we have ice cream at 8:00. And some evenings, we have it at other times, because it’s 8:00… Read more
Grace Lives in the Inevitable Tricia Lott Williford January 10, 2020 3 Comments What advice would you give to the younger you? ⠀ ⠀ “Love Hard. Especially because I now know what that… Read more
That’s Some Serious Staying Power Tricia Lott Williford July 2, 2019 1 Comment When death comes at the end of a long life, we don’t wonder if it was time. We don’t wonder… Read more
To Say Their Names Tricia Lott Williford May 10, 2019 7 Comments “Let me find a picture that shows her hair,” she said, scrolling through the pictures on her phone. We were… Read more
Diesel, Cigarettes, and Perfume Tricia Lott Williford April 15, 2019 4 Comments I love the smell of gasoline, and I am somehow fond of fresh cigarette smoke. I’ve always felt like I… Read more
Little Things, Big Things, Healed, and Whole Tricia Lott Williford December 23, 2018 7 Comments I love the Christkindl market. I love the rows of shops lined up like stalls in a wooden stable. I… Read more
Why I Won’t Get the Award for Mother of the Year Tricia Lott Williford June 28, 2018 3 Comments Throwing it back to a post from 2008,when my babies were two and almost-one, I was sleepless and underfed, Robb and… Read more
Sacred Gratitude. Tricia Lott Williford January 26, 2017 1 Comment He’s Peter’s closest cousin. They are just a few years apart in a whole collection of people that span across… Read more
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… Read more
The Bread and the Wine… and the Root Beer Float Tricia Lott Williford August 29, 2016 5 Comments Saturday was Robb’s birthday, so we went to Red Robin to celebrate and remember. Because Bottomless Root Beer Floats. “We’re… Read more
Hummingbirds, Pennies, and Verizon Texts Tricia Lott Williford July 12, 2016 4 Comments On the day that Robb died, my mom’s phone became Grief’s Grand Central Station. She spent the whole day on… Read more
Get Drunk on the Lovely of it All Tricia Lott Williford May 21, 2016 2 Comments It is Wedding Week. I am in the last seven days of one of the most sacred seasons of my… Read more
Thank You, Little Black Dress. Tricia Lott Williford April 8, 2016 12 Comments I am reading The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up. It’s a revolutionary approach to decluttering where instead of clearing… Read more
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