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.
All in Pep Talk
Conversation 2.0, both the platonic and nonplatonic-oriented kind, is sometimes hard to make the leap to, especially in a world where the niceties of shallow small talk sometimes feel like the only space that is safe.
I don’t know about you, but for me the days went on for freaking ever this summer.
Some things are beautiful because of their permanence. Others, because of their impermanence.
Your house and your calendar and your laundry all fall on you. And that can feel crushing when you hate house stuff, calendar stuff, and laundry stuff. Q: What to do? A: Get creative.
So I’m at the elementary school where my kids attend for an event recently and I find myself – early for once - lingering in the hallway. In-between my dat…
Yesterday Campbell lurked through a toy box to unearth an unlikely pad of Christmas stickers. We sat on the porch (in our tank tops and shorts), and Campbell w…
I don’t particularly like the experience of shopping at the grocery store. Although I am a complete maniac for a good deal, clothes shopping fro…
On more than one occasion, my father's desire to connect with humanity clashed with his impulsive mouth. My mom frequently scolded him about his frien…
Been thinking about the manner of speech "letting myself off the hook." I've used it a bunch recently as I dedicated the past two days to doing just that. I had a su…
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