


Nurses’ week 2020
I didn’t get to celebrate Nurses’ Week. I don’t think many of us nurses did, I know us critical care nurses barely knew it was Nurses’ Week. I really don’t […]

Where the Lord calls to serve
I’m doing something I normally don’t do. In fact I’m terrified. This whole coronavirus pandemic is effecting everyone around us differently. Right now, I can say with absolute certainty that […]

This is why I became a PICU nurse
If you have been following me for a while now, you know I am a PICU nurse. For those of you just stumbling across my blog for the first time, […]

Coffee and Donuts
To you this may just be coffee and donuts, but to me it is everything. A family of a girl I took care of a while ago in the PICU, […]

Happy Nurses Week
May of 2009 I graduated from Nursing school and 10 years goes by fast. As a student I was filled with much hope and longed to make a difference in […]

Confessions of a PICU nurse
I am really nervous to write this, but being a writer somehow equates to vulnerability. And it seems that there’s always at least one person who’s life is touched by […]

Hate is too great a burden
How do you love your enemies? The people that wrong you and intentionally try to hurt you? The ones that hold a grudge against you for no reason? How do […]

Sometimes there are miracles
Everyone always has an opinion about someone else. And that’s where this story starts. I had no opinion of this man when I first met him. But everyone I knew […]

The Ninja Nurse and her Jiu-Jitsu Warrior: Never Compromise Your Worth
One of the wisest things the Jiu-Jitsu Warrior has ever said was “identity cannot be compromised for people”. I wrote The Ninja Nurse without her Jui-Jitsu Warrior exactly a year […]