Rich Dixon continues his ride along the Mississippi: Thursday of Week 3 – the bike-shop guy’s absolute certainty as he sketched the map should have been the first warning sign. The opening miles provided splendid early-morning river views and tours through suburban neighborhoods. The trail twisted through parks, along levees, and around riverside communities and […]

We sometimes have two chaplains working at a time. When pages come in, we take turns. The other day, there were three pages, close in time. The other chaplain took the first one. Two more arrived and it was, in essence, a coin flip. “I’ve got this,” she said, “And you can take that.” I […]

The morning after our wedding, we went to church. We sat in the middle of the pew about six rows from the front. I swallowed wrong. I started to cough. Except who wants to cough when you are in the middle of a fancy Chicago church where you don’t know anyone? So I did my […]

God. We are afraid.We call it nervous. Or having an abundance of caution. Or being concerned for others. And we know that maybe we shouldn’t feel this way. But it’s what we feel. We are afraid.We are afraid of what might happen to us.We are afraid of what might happen to people we love.We are […]

I wrote yesterday about letting Nancy know about leaving a job after I had decided. The first time I told Nancy what I had decided was in 1982. We were out on a walk, as friends, a couple months before I was heading to Texas to start doctoral studies. I said that I thought we […]