Passages: Death, Dementia, and Everything in Between

I am a wife, mom to four children, (three in grade school, one on her way to college this fall), and I am also a full-time family physician who practices rural family medicine in the same area I was born and raised. And, for my sanity and own entertainment, I wake up early (like four am early) to write.

         My latest release is the first of its kind for me, and stands apart from the fiction genres I’ve written so far. Although technically considered Narrative Medicine and non-fiction, I think in many ways, Passages still encompasses the magic the rest of my fiction novels and short stories do. I have a special interest in caring for the elderly and those near the end of life. But along with all the wonderful moments I’ve had because of the nature of this work, providing care for this particular subsection of our world also brings inevitable losses as part of the journey. 

         The world can be a wonderful, terrible, magical, and amazing place, and my book, Passages, explores that premise through a combination of poetry and prose. It was written over the course of a year, my first year of writing, in fact, and is composed of a selection of some of my early work in dealing with the grief and loss I often face in my career.