Kathleen Gibson

About the author

I began growing up in a small brown house beside a Pacific inlet, next to a green, green park. With foghorns bellowing in the background, I learned to love words and the Word, family and friends, animals and art.

Plus a few other things.

I wrote and spoke about all that for decades as a freelance writer and speaker, broadcaster of primarily personal essays, for media outlets large and small, local and global. (Including for Reader's Digest, one of the magazines always kept in the basement bathroom of the little brown house.) Along the way I’ve won a few awards, and taken a few professional detours—editing a magazine, working for federal politicians. For more than a quarter century, I have written Sunny Side Up, a weekly faith and life newspaper column, published first in my local paper.

Plus a few other places, now.

The mosquito that infected my clergyman husband, Rick, with West Nile Neurological Disease in 2007 badly messed up our lives. Made them beautiful like a mosaic. It also spurred my first book, West Nile Diary, One Couple's Triumph Over a Deadly Disease. Next came Practice by Practice—The Art of Everyday Faith, reader-requested compilations of past Sunny Side Up columns, in which I admit to having been a practicing Christian for years—and yet, far from perfect, but for Christ in me.

In my columns I shamelessly use family and friends as fodder.

Plus a few other people.

These days, I'm growing up in a small red house on the Prairie, in a small city surrounded by fields of grain and snow in their respective seasons. I live with two tabbies and my beloved (medically adventurous) husband, Rick. Since 2007 he has battled other diseases that continue to plague him. And so, I wrestle beauty and brokenness; words and the Word—and practice and plead to bring both of those to the world, for God's glory.

Faith, family and friends, animals and art? Those are still my main loves.

You can find me, occasionally, on Facebook.

And maybe, sometimes, elsewhere.