Published Work

Coming Off Antidepressants: Slow Dancing With Life

An Open Letter to Young People Struggling, From a Suicide Survivor

Public Health Nursing and the Myths of Poverty

Parenting and the Simple Power of Touch

A Kleenex Salute to the Helping Professions

 A Thank You Letter to My Rapist

A Final Lesson

Move Over Zika, We Need to Talk About CMV

Is Modern Day Criticism Too Much?

Put Down The Pitchforks, Pokemon Go Players Aren't Hurting Anyone

This Summer I Will Give My Kids the Gift of Boredom

Mourning Does Not Make You a Weaker Nurse

Celebration Amidst The Darkness

Life Lessons from my Teenage Son

Breathe Again: Reflecting on Life in Iowa Post-Caucus

The Mourning of Motherhood

In Defense of Crybabies

This is How I Made Friends With Death

Floating as Meditation

Bill Cosby's Own Words are Damning & Yet the Headlines Refuse to Use the Term Rape

Sexual Assault Awareness Month is Over, but it Never Really Ends

I am Trapped Inside My Body

Dining With Shame

The Power of Touch

Tearing Up My List of Shame