300 words a day

God. We are asking you for signs all the time. We are asking you for directions, for plans, for meaning, for answers. And you told Philip to go to a road in the desert that led to nowhere. I could be wrong, but I’m guessing that though it was an angel, it wasn’t a message […]

We were standing together in a room–a spouse, a couple adult children. “Eddie” was in a hospital bed. We’d all met about forty-five minutes earlier, down the hall in a waiting area. All of us but Eddie. At the time the rest of us met, Eddie was in the bed, a team of people gathered […]

I read. A couple psalms, including 70. I say to myself, “reach over an get your pen and journal.” I also say to myself, “look at the weather app.” And 10 minutes later (okay, 12), I have my journal. (Okay, 15 minutes). Whatever observations I had about Psalm 70, whatever prayer I wanted to write […]

True confession. I almost didn’t write here about my newest publication project. This Is Hard is a collection of things I say to people in the moments and hours after a loved one dies. They are words that I’ve found sitting in rooms and walking down the hall and looking in the mirror. They are […]

Rich Dixon has a confession today. (I understand. js) +++ Confession time: I react too much to exterior stimulus. That’s a fancy way of saying I get really upset about events I can’t control. Those close to me (my wife) would tell you my reactions often spiral into disproportionate levels of negativity and depression in […]