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Welcome. I’m here, and I’m glad you are, too. I’m Tricia Joy, lover of all things real: kindness, humor, story-telling, creativity, imperfection, God, honesty, cuss words, and a heck of a lot of and silliness.
Welcome. I’m here, and I’m glad you are, too. I’m Tricia Joy, lover of all things real: kindness, humor, story-telling, creativity, imperfection, God, honesty, cuss words, and a heck of a lot of and silliness.
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Let me tell you, if you wonder how sure of yourself you are, attempting to monetize yourself and your gifts after being out of the game for a bit will bring the mirror right up to your scraggly face and say, “Not so sure of yourself after all, huh?”
Me: WTF. Did that just happen? Did I just downplay a deeply traumatic experience that occurred 17 minutes from my house and terrorized thousands directly (and millions indirectly) by rationalizing it?
“Hi there. Tell me about yourself.” He held his cardboard sign, folding slightly in on itself because of the crea…
When you are a runner for your midwestern college’s indoor track team— which holds its season in the Winter— and your coach loves to wa…
Preamble (cuz I'm always ambling): Yesterday evening I posted the message below on Facebook. I cannot stop there, though, because I know there is going to be so much confusion and misinfor…
So, I'm smack-dab in the middle of posting, one at a time, "Five Things I Never Say To My Kids"... And THIS happens. Don't click the link. I'll just tell you: The United Meth…
Preamble: I like alliteration enough to force it. Also: I began working on this well before the nomination was confirmed. As a result, this piece is belated on the timeline, but still aliv…
I’ve been living under a rock. My parents, while exceptionally nurturing in most ways, completely omitted educating their only daughter about body safety. The Girl Scouts, as I recall, w…
I'm not here to talk about failed security measures. I'm here to talk about nests. When something like Florida happens and something like Westerville, OH happens (which happens to be the tight-knit community where m…
I've got it figured out, and I want in. And by "figured it out," I mean "my latest idea." And my ideas are long-lasting solutions to very complicated issues almost never. I have a way of making peo…
Are y'all noticing what I'm noticing? OK, I know I'm a bit of a greeting junkie... as in, I put a TON of emphasis on noticing when a person enters into a mix ("Hello, I'm so-and-so! Wh…
I don't like alienating others. For a long time, back when I avoided alienating others in order to keep my first-born-pleasing-I-like-to-be-liked identity in tact, I believed it to…
I have learned, finally, that I do better when I pay attention to my heart. Not the emotional life of my figurative heart, although that's entirely true as well. I actually mean m…
I went to elementary school with a lot of black kiddos, a few black teachers, and one black principal. Mrs. Hodge-Trice, my 1st grade teacher, was my favo…
I've only really begun...The meat of this "party" has been my backstory, that which frames what comes next...my musings on the topic of racism, parti…
Two weeks ago, I received a text from a fellow-mom sent to several parents from my son's soccer team, many of whom also happened to be neig…
Today is Tuesday and since Sunday I have avoided my blog... even though there were some voices wanting to be let out. Well, that is not entirely true. Yester…
I find myself (as always) with a lot of thoughts in my head. But - more recently - they are curious and creative and open in…
