I’ve been a freelance writer with a specialization in health for the past ten years.  I  have the ability to take photos to accompany my articles. I also have experience coaching families to tell and write their own health stories.

My two personal essays published in the Globe and Mail are here.  Here’s my writing portfolio:

• A feature in CLPNA’s CARE magazine – The Northern Advantage in the Winter 2012 issue.
• Our Families Talk (as part of my contract with the Stollery Children’s Hospital).  Published in Hospital News, and co-written with Karen Klak and Linda McConnan.
• It’s about the people:  nursing in the inner city.  A feature about Ashley Schwanke and her clients at the Streetworks needle exchange program.
• Meaningful Engagement or Tokenism?  An article published in Australia’s Health Issues Journal.
• A piece about the LPN role expansion at the University of Alberta Hospitals - Transforming Care (page 9).
• It’s Easy Being Green (page 14) – an article in CARE about environmental initiatives undertaken by the College of Licensed Practical Nurses and their partners.
• Rhoda Blooms (page 16) -a profile about a remarkable nurse, and her experience with addiction and recovery.
• Two stories in Care magazine - one co-written about the Dialysis Bus, and a profile on nurse Larry Leduc and his experiences in Haiti.
• February 2010 – where I write about writing for Edmonton Stories.
• A feature called Myth Busters, about nurses working in continuing care.  I provided both the words and the photos for this piece.  (Page 8).
• In Care magazine’s summer 09 issue, the cover feature about the Perioperative Nursing Program. (Scroll down to page 8).
• The spring issue of CLPNA’s Care magazine contains two of my articles.  One called Care in the Air (page 7) and the other a short piece on a woman named Emma, who is 102 years old (page 21).
• The College of Licenced Practical Nurses has a new magazine called Care.  I wrote the feature for it in the fall 2008 issue, about LPN and ortho tech Dave Dearden - called From Trucks to Scrubs (page 18).
• The Primary Care Initiative new website has been launched.  I wrote the feature story - Paving the Way for Prenatal Care.
• New article!  Edmonton’s Child magazine - A Primer:  Choosy Childcare.  Scroll down to page 24.
• News and Views, Alberta’s LPNs’ professional magazine, page 16.   A profile on an LPN working in primary care.
• The Edmonton Journal, ed magazine - article called Misconceptions about Contraception
• The Advocate magazine -profile on Primary Care Network mental health coordinators
• Edmonton’s Child magazine – articles about Early Intervention, New Mom’s Network
• Hospital News – piece about Alberta’s Primary Care Networks.
• Legacy Magazine, Winter 2006.  A profile on composer John Estacio.
• Globe and Mail Facts & Arguments
• Your Health magazine - features on Primary Health Care, sex education, Gene Chip technology, art therapy
• Food for Thought- health articles on diabetes, fibre, a day in the life of a veterinarian, profile on a dinner prep company.