Kathleen S Evenhouse
Writing With Vision
I did not experience living near extended family growing. Most relatives were in the Midwest, and we lived out west: New Mexico and California. Just about every other year, we made the drive cross country to see family, and as we were a family of eight, we were usually split up while we were there… Read More
Before you read any further, focus on one of your favorite memories. Do you think it’s a single memory? It contains colors, smells, physical sensations like a breeze in your face, laughing with someone, how hungry you were… Your brain turns these micro-second-long sensory experiences into a mosaic we call a memory. In an article… Read More
“Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” NOT TRUE! Researchers have shown that the same area of the brain lights up—the interior cingulate gyrus—when you experience hurtful words as it does when you experience physical pain. Words are real—they enter your brain as electro-magnetic forces; they become thoughts. Every… Read More
I had the “privilege” of decorating our Christmas tree this year without the help of any children. Even as an adult, one daughter always participated in the fun of putting up the family tree until she had a home of her own. By that time, I had grandchildren nearby that were aching for a chance… Read More
How do we learn things, absorb them as truth into our inner beings, and consider as truth things we have absorbed by osmosis. (For you scientists out there, I am not using this term in the strict scientific sense, but as a usually effortless, often unconscious assimilation.) Watching a parade with my two-and-a-half-year-old grandson made… Read More
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