One, thank you to all those who still read this blog and perused by for those pesky medically addled writing questions that you’re wondering about. I was honestly pleasantly surprised people would still queery me when I hadn’t posted essentially since the dawn of the pandemic in March, 2020. Secondly, if you did submit a medical question to me during that time, I’m sorry that I didn’t respond.

Surprisingly, I AM still nursing. I AM still writing!! At the start of the pandemic, I was working as a nursing house supervisor at a medium sized children’s hospital– a sister site of a larger children’s conglomerate. Those, to say the least, were interesting times. In pediatrics, we did not have the volume of patients our adult counterparts had until the triple pandemic hit us in November, 2021 (RSV, flu, and COVID). That was when pediatric nurses were crying just as hard as our adult nursing friends.

I will write more here about what I saw during the pandemic– maybe as more of a personal diary to have insight in looking back. It is a dream of mine to share these nursing stories in some kind of format. I don’t want our stories to be forgotten. All that we had to deal with. The nursing lives that were lost. Those stories need to be told.

In February of 2021, I transitioned out of the nursing house supervisor role and became a pediatric triage RN still in the same hospital system I’ve worked since 2006. I’m currently an assistant clinical manager but I still take care of patients, teach, and write novels.

My two most recent novels, Christmas Baby Rescue and Eliminating the Witness released respectively in 2022 and 2023. Both hit the PW bestseller list!