Welcome to NursePub, a place where lived experience meets evidence, where stories matter, and where the wild still speaks…if you know how to listen. I’m so glad you’re here.
This space is something I’ve dreamed about for a long time. Here’s what you’ll find at NursePub:
🩺 Nurse to Nurse – reflections on clinical nursing, nursing education, compassion, compassion fatigue, burnout, and purpose.
🌲 Field Notes – musings from Idaho’s wild places, birds spotted, trails hiked, and rivers fished (I’m only in my third summer of fly fishing, so there will be some flailing along with the casting).
✍️ The Writing Life – Academic writing and publishing – Yes. But with a touch of Dark Americana – fiction rooted in truth – real bloodlines (mine), haunted legacies (also mine), and the thin veil between history and myth.
🧬 Adoption & Identity – personal notes and stories about adoption, adoption search, DNA discoveries, secrets and lies, and the emotional archaeology of identity.
🧩 Adopted: A Serial Memoir in Three Voices – A serialized memoir told through the intertwined perspectives of the adoptee, her birth mother, and her adoptive mother. Each installment reveals a fragment of a story about identity, loss, and belonging.