Hi there.
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.
All in Spirituality
My kids were seated on either side of me, not because I like to split my attention equally among them but because their bickering required it.
It’s OK is what we say to people when we’re holding their hands, rubbing their backs, holding back their hair. Why can’t we offer ourselves that same comfort all the time?
Am I blessed? Maybe. Am I lucky? Maybe? Am I a product of my own hard work? Maybe.
Am I grateful? You bet your socks off.
Down below, waiting. Its stem not yet arched in form - without light, not even the col…
“Hi there. Tell me about yourself.” He held his cardboard sign, folding slightly in on itself because of the crea…
When I was a kid, I thought my Dad was a Christian. I mean, it wasn’t my fault I was clueless about his agnosticism: he led my parents’ freak…
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 am all done buying my kids shit. OVER. IT. Christmas, Valentine's Day, and now EASTER?? They're gonna start expecting presents for Every. Stinkin. Day. Off. School. Pa…
It was in 2007 that I took off my cross necklace for awhile. At that point, I had been feeling unsettled about my status as a Christian off and on for a solid fe…
"Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return." And yet... "Which of you, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn't leave the ninety nine in the wil…
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…
