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On Paying Attention
Tricia Lott Williford
March 3, 2025
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In my class, we are reading Bridge to Terabithia, one of my favorite books in the history of ever. Today,…
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Grass Stains and Touchdowns
Tricia Lott Williford
May 18, 2024
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I love to watch kids playing football. Their varying degrees of grass stains, interest, and commitment. It looked like a…
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Food Courts and School Buses: An Abstract Pondering
Tricia Lott Williford
January 6, 2024
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Seating is so limited at the mall today that people have resorted to sharing tables with strangers. How very…
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The Power of “This.”
Tricia Lott Williford
May 26, 2023
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Significance is a desire within us, a birthright. We each long to matter, to be extraordinary, to be outstanding, to…
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We Call Her Big Mama
Tricia Lott Williford
May 20, 2023
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We call her Big Mama, and sometimes Mama Cass. She is the giant red umbrella that shades our patio during…
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This Mom, Other Moms, Shining Stars and State Testing
Tricia Lott Williford
March 26, 2023
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“Mom, can you opt us out of the state testing?” “Why?” “Because some other moms are doing that.” “Maybe they…
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The Golden Light of Endings
Tricia Lott Williford
December 31, 2022
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In his book, I Wrote This For You, Iaian Thomas wrote a breathtaking poem that I can’t stop thinking about.…
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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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Listen, I Know It Wasn’t Safe.
Tricia Lott Williford
November 4, 2022
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I was driving home on a cold November evening, when I pulled up to a stoplight at a busy intersection.…
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A Voice and A Choice
Tricia Lott Williford
November 2, 2022
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“Tricia, this weekend we will be spending time with a ten-year-old boy whose mom died recently. What cues do you…
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If Ever You Need to Feel Brave
Tricia Lott Williford
November 1, 2022
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“I was brave?” the four-year-old asked. “You were — you are brave,” Eddie told her. “What does brave mean?” Ruth…
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Juggling the Glass and the Plastic
Tricia Lott Williford
October 21, 2022
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I read recently about an interview with author Nora Roberts, where someone asked her how to balance writing and kids.…
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Freedom, Tight Shoes, and Green Beans from the Freezer
Tricia Lott Williford
August 12, 2022
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On my birthday, I exhaled into a new word: Freedom. For nearly three weeks of my new age of 43,…
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“Favored.”
Tricia Lott Williford
December 22, 2021
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My first husband died eleven years ago, on the morning of December 23, 2010. In the days to follow, I…
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Chocolate for a Cellist
Tricia Lott Williford
October 23, 2021
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Knock, Knock. Who’s there? Something that should matter to you. Something that should matter to you – who? Yes. And…
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A Love Letter to Simone
Tricia Lott Williford
July 28, 2021
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Well done, Simone. Well done. We don’t own you, Simone. Nobody does. We have showed you off like you…
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A Word to Graduates
Tricia Lott Williford
May 26, 2021
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Middle School is officially in the rearview mirror. Everybody finished, everybody survived, and I don’t just mean the eighth graders.…
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School is In Session
Tricia Lott Williford
February 9, 2021
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I took my children to school today. It felt gloriously normal, like muscles that have ached to be stretched. It’s…
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Give My Book for Christmas!
Tricia Lott Williford
December 15, 2020
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A Christmas Special: Give my book for Christmas! For $20, I’ll send to you a *personalized, signed copy* of…
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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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