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The Truth about My Coffee

Tricia Lott Williford July 11, 2013 No Comments

I wanted to like coffee. I wanted to want it. It just looked so sophisticated, so conversational, to hold a [...]

The Year I Blew It on Father’s Day

Tricia Lott Williford June 16, 2013 1 Comment

Robb was a pro at celebrating Mother’s Day. We didn’t have many years together as parents, but he was always [...]

Full Immersion

Tricia Lott Williford June 5, 2013 1 Comment

I have a new iPhone cover. I went with Royal Blue. (Apparently I capitalize colors of royalty.) The Verizon girl [...]

Racquetball Glove

Tricia Lott Williford May 1, 2013 8 Comments

Tyler found Robb’s racquetball bag. He used to play an evening or two each week, and his bag had not [...]

Conflicted

Tricia Lott Williford April 25, 2013 9 Comments

I wonder if he felt conflicted. I wonder, at what point did he know he was dying? When did he [...]

Operation: Talk to Me. {One Year Ago}

Tricia Lott Williford March 22, 2013 1 Comment

And then it was 2012, and Tucker was six and a half. And our lives had changed on so many [...]

Operation: Talk to Me. {Three Years Ago}

Tricia Lott Williford March 22, 2013 No Comments

And then it was 2010, and we were a family of four with a Chocolate Labrador. And Tucker was experimenting [...]

Operation: Talk To Me. {Four Years Ago}

Tricia Lott Williford March 22, 2013 No Comments

And then Tucker was three, and Tyler was one. It was 2009, and my boys were discovering one another. * [...]

Operation: Talk to Me. {Five Years Ago}

Tricia Lott Williford March 22, 2013 4 Comments

Picture this: 28-year-old me. Young wife and frazzled mom of Baby Tyler and two-year-old Tuck, neither of whom were talking [...]

Meet The Person of Their Memories

Tricia Lott Williford March 12, 2013 7 Comments

Please go to funerals. Go to calling hours and wakes. Please go. Perhaps you knew the person well, and it [...]

She

Tricia Lott Williford February 27, 2013 11 Comments

She made an appointment to visit the house that was hers the day before. She brought two friends along, who [...]

One Box on the Counter

Tricia Lott Williford February 26, 2013 9 Comments

The girl next to me on the plane looks like Amanda Seyfried, from Les Mis and Mamma Mia. Which means [...]

Lucky

Tricia Lott Williford February 23, 2013 4 Comments

Today, I sat with a woman whose husband died nine months ago. This weekend is her first step into the [...]

The Day Before The Day

Tricia Lott Williford December 22, 2012 14 Comments

Tomorrow is the anniversary. But today is too. Today is the Day Before the Day. Tomorrow is the day he [...]

A Picture for the Classroom

Tricia Lott Williford September 25, 2012 17 Comments

Tucker’s teacher met me on the sidewalk as the children streamed out of the school. She had her arm around [...]

A Day for Root Beer Floats

Tricia Lott Williford August 27, 2012 4 Comments

“Guys, do you know what today is? It’s Daddy’s birthday.” “Yes!! That means we can have root beer floats today! [...]

What If I Miss This?

Tricia Lott Williford July 27, 2012 3 Comments

This post was previously published in 2008, in an entirely different life stage that challenged me in so many different [...]

Outdated Popsicles

Tricia Lott Williford July 16, 2012 2 Comments

Tyler handed me his Popsicle stick and asked me to read the (forever and always lame) joke printed on the [...]

Elegant Denial

Tricia Lott Williford July 10, 2012 3 Comments

I tossed out a bottle of his vitamins today. I puzzle myself with the things I have kept all this [...]

Bookends

Tricia Lott Williford July 4, 2012 3 Comments

These photos span a decade. His eyes are lit up in the first picture; they were brighter then. Everything was [...]

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