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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…

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…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

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…

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…

Sparkly, Shiny Promises

Tricia Lott Williford March 24, 2020 5 Comments

A few years ago, I kept things lively with a special treat for the boys each day of spring break.…

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…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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