What makes people healthy and well? It's so much more than healthcare and the usual diet and exercise advice. It's what individuals do, but also where they live, laws and policies that impact their health, systems, and the people around them.

I've spent my career caring for people across the lifespan and supporting professionals and organizations to positively impact individual and community health.

I like to tell stories and lessons I learned from spending more time on the street-side of caring for people in homes and communities than the bedside in the ICU of hospitals.

I share takeaways from engaging with community-based organizations, government, public health, managed care, and healthcare systems - all wrestling with how to invest resources in the best way possible to create healthier individuals and communities.

Nursing is a profession rooted in caring and touching lives.

I hope my stories, research, thoughts and insights touch you. I hope they inform you, empower you to make changes, or help you help others make healthy changes. And just maybe, my writing leaves you a little bit entertained.

I also write about caring for my dad with dementia, swimming, parenting young adult children, relationships, and whatever I find funny and joyful about life!

Thank you for reading.