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Hail to the middle
Check out my new website and post at this address: http://www.tricia-wilson.com/blog/2016/6/7/hail-to-the-middle Would love to have you follow me. Go to tricia-wilson.com and subscribe at the bottom of...
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Changes afoot
I am moving again…this time, my website address. For a while, I will post reminders here. If you would like to sign up for email notifications for future blogs, please sign up at the bottom of...
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It’s who you know
Many of us have either been told or directly experienced the “it’s who you know” phenomenon in social, educational or work life. Despite the inequity of such a principle, it is alive and well and...
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Joy and the unexpected
Many plans and hopes and dreams had been imagined and focused toward this March weekend. Our middle son was to be wed to his beautiful, full of life fiancée. Much care and planning and negotiation...
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Who is your enemy?
That was the question voiced around the luncheon table of five, a group of women all living in our 6th decade on break after listening to Sarah Bessey, author of Jesus Feminist. Our assignment was to...
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A good dog
He entered our family after a string of dog fails brought on by an impulsive mom who was trying her best not to go through the hard work of the puppy stage. Three rambunctious boys and a grown dog...
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Lessons on the mat
Sometime during my mid to late forties, yoga became a part of my life. It was post double back surgery and in the midst of a self care wake up call. Contrary to the denial land I had lived in, staying...
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Christopher
This morning I had an agenda. It involved working on a long term writing project and making specific plans around the wedding of our middle son, Chris. As I sat down ready to forge ahead, this caught...
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Light more candles
In mid-December, our home was part of an annual neighborhood Christmas tour. Over two days and 12 hours, several thousand people meandered through our home. The days leading up to this event were...
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The gift of normal
On October 17, 2014, our older daughter took a terrifying fall from a tree in our yard. That story is chronicled here. The anniversary of this event came and was not at all lost on me. But I could not...
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Partings
Flying up to meet the soon to be other half of my boy’s family. A gracious invitation to stay the night. Wonderings from both sides I am sure. Do we go to the back door or walk around to the front?...
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Discovering that which fills
One of my favorite hymn refrains proclaims the beautiful words, “it is well with my soul”. Though often played at funerals, it seems that this posture is just as critical to the living as the dead. For...
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Words do matter
I was sitting on my couch the other day and mindlessly watching photos of our family scroll through our computer screen. One of the signs that we encountered on our 2013 trip to China floated by. It...
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Three grace encounters
A test A Sunday interaction. Concern and confusion about how the world has changed, the morals of the young people, the stubborn uncooperative ways of her very own body. So much shifting and switching...
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Two perspectives from another generation
I got a lot of feedback on the last blog dealing with social media and life events. I loved hearing from peers as well as from a younger generation on this topic. With permission, two young friends...
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When everything becomes “a thing”
Warning: I may sound old and scroogey and like a killjoy in this blog, and I would truly love to hear the thoughts and ideas of others around this topic. With one son recently married and another very...
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Writing
“…looks like I don’t know what is on my mind until I go to writing to you.” Burley Coulter in A Place on Earth by Wendell Berry We all need a place and space to make sense of our lives and the world...
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Mirroring a soul
On the heels of my Best days post, this one idea from the Mothering and Daughtering book persistently whispers into my consciousness. One of the major tasks as mother or father is to mirror the soul of...
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Best days
Along with my girls, I enjoy listening to Taylor Swift. My very favorite of her songs has nothing to do with romance, heartbreak or drama. The Best Day is a sweet and poignant song written from the...
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Being trill
For mother’s day, I received a public Facebook message from our eldest child. He referred to me as “trill”. After I consulted my handy google urban dictionary to determine if this was an insult or...
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