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Tom Hanks and Peter: Dads Do It Differently

Tricia Lott Williford November 4, 2017 4 Comments

Tom Hanks just released a book of short stories, and that alone has nearly been more than my reading heart [...]

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Cape Shopping and the Mess in My Head

Tricia Lott Williford November 3, 2017 10 Comments

You guys, it gets so messy in my head. Peter said the other day, “What are you thinking right now? [...]

Cable Knit Sweaters and Marching Bands

Tricia Lott Williford October 30, 2017 No Comments

When we were in high school, my parents gave my brother a sweater for Christmas. It was quite simply the [...]

You Have Not Wasted a Single Breath

Tricia Lott Williford October 26, 2017 1 Comment

“Persist.” Pure persistence will carry you where no amount of talent, skill, aptitude, and experience can. Persistence will take you [...]

Me, too.

Tricia Lott Williford October 19, 2017 4 Comments

Yes, me too. My high school teacher gave me a detention and then invited me to lay down on his [...]

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It Can’t Be Defined in Four Letters

Tricia Lott Williford October 12, 2017 4 Comments

We have one word for love. How very silly of us. Such definition can’t be wrapped up in four letters. [...]

Inside the Las Vegas Shooting: a Survivor’s Story of Heroes

Tricia Lott Williford October 9, 2017 1 Comment

Debbi, a 61-year-old woman from California, was on a girls’ weekend to Vegas, celebrating a couple of birthdays with her [...]

Sometimes They Belong Someplace Bigger

Tricia Lott Williford October 5, 2017 1 Comment

Tyler found a roly-poly, one of those little black bugs that curls up into a ball. He found it as [...]

Julia and Dolly

Tricia Lott Williford September 29, 2017 3 Comments

There’s this story I love about Julia Roberts and Dolly Parton, back in the late eighties when they were filming [...]

Nora Ephron’s Five Words

Tricia Lott Williford September 27, 2017 1 Comment

I love Nora Ephron. I learn from her every chance I can. I am reading Way More Than Luck: Commencement [...]

Writing and Mothering: Celebrate Everything.

Tricia Lott Williford September 25, 2017 3 Comments

I went to a writer’s retreat last week, an incubated three days in a think tank with writers, authors, editors, [...]

The Narrow Window for Morning Words

Tricia Lott Williford September 18, 2017 No Comments

There is this window of time in the morning where I feel compelled to be present but I’m not really [...]

That Time When I Plagiarized. Accidentally.

Tricia Lott Williford September 14, 2017 2 Comments

I was riding on the wings of a book launch, when energy and excitement are high, and the invitations for [...]

Lessons from a Soggy Swimsuit

Tricia Lott Williford September 11, 2017 5 Comments

In our family, you have some decisions to make on your birthday. Do you want a one-afternoon birthday party with [...]

Authentic Intimacy: On the Air with Dr. Juli Slattery

Tricia Lott Williford September 8, 2017 No Comments

“When the light goes out, you can’t just turn it back on and pretend it never went out. When you [...]

The Noticing Game

Tricia Lott Williford September 5, 2017 2 Comments

The teacher’s name, Mr. Snodgrass, was printed on the chalkboard in careful block letters. Mr. Snodgrass himself stood before us. [...]

Because It Is Sunday

Tricia Lott Williford September 3, 2017 2 Comments

“Sundays are family days, the days where the rhythms of church and brunch and afternoon football ease you into rest [...]

What Does Houston Need? Underwear.

Tricia Lott Williford September 1, 2017 1 Comment

“I’m going to ask you for what we really need,” Brené Brown said on her Instagram video that she filmed [...]

The Worst Parts and the Retelling

Tricia Lott Williford August 30, 2017 No Comments

“Remember when you went camping and it rained the whole time and you were soaking wet and the car got [...]

Jen Hatmaker, Brené Brown, and Tender, Whole-Hearted Brilliance

Tricia Lott Williford August 29, 2017 1 Comment

I’m in that post-book-launch, anchorless place of the writing curve. There are times when I wake up in the morning, [...]

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