Kathleen S Evenhouse
Writing With Vision
Noah spent 120 years in advent—that’s how long he spent waiting and “becoming”for the big natural disaster that God told him was coming. He had a few things to do to get ready—like build a boat that was as long as a football field plus half. He had to get buy-in from his wife and… Read More
This is the story of a beauty who was to be married to a beast, but it’s not a fable or a Disney movie. It takes place during Bible times in Israel, when David—who would soon be king—was hiding out from King Saul who wanted to kill him. Abigail came from a devout family, so… Read More
Prayer is a conversationwith an awesome God whocreated me to walk in Eden garden,who lives inside me, makes me a templein which He resides, and nothing separates us. Our discourse oftenstarts with my wants and needs,my hopes and dreams or pain and anger,with cries of distress for myself or for others.Still, God responds to my… Read More
The title is inspired by an essay by Annie Dillard called “The Total Eclipse.” Our writing assignment was to take an experience that seemed impossible to put into words and write about it. That’s what Annie Dillard did with her other-wordly experience of a total eclipse. One of her paragraphs (which I quote below) reminded… Read More
In the fall of 2024, after my mother’s death followed by 14 months of at least one illness per month, I was asked if I had “a word” to set the tone for the next year. I laughed, because that’s not a tradition I’ve ever taken part in. But, to my surprise, the word “Jubilee”… Read More
This is from my Creative Nonfiction course I am taking through http://www.thehabit.co. Assignment: think of a time in which an insight from a story helped you make sense of some experience or problem? If so, tell that story. What’s wrong with me? I need my husband to hear me, yet hope that he doesn’t. How… Read More
Depression isn’t a dragonThat overtly threatensAnd awakensVanquishing knightsInside ourselves. Rather,It is a silent enemyThat infiltratesAnd becomes part of the landscape,Assuming more and more prominenceUntil takeoverIs accomplished. To mount an insurrectionWe must developA vigilant networkOf counter-spiesSnooping through the mundane,Sniffing out each plot,Shoring upThe sagging bulwarksOf equanimity. Sorry, I can’t help you with that. I wrote this… Read More
Kathleen S Evenhouse 