Autopsy, Chest, Journal of the American College of Chest Physicians, February 2012
Bathing in Lake Ada, InScribe, Creative Writing Journal of Tabor University, Australia, 2021
Catching My Breath, Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine, Prose
Describe Your Headache, Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, Volume 51, Issue 4, April 2011
Eating My Words, Alimentum: The Literature of Food
Flyaway, Popshot Quarterly: An Illustrated Magazine of New Writing, Winter 2019
God on the Head Pain Unit, Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, Volume 51, Issue 4, April 2011
Hospital Librarian, Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine, Prose
Juniper, Crab Orchard Review, Summer/Fall 2008
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Affordable Healthcare, Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine, Prose
Locust Street McDonald’s, Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing
Love and Fury in a Plastic Box, Passager, Winter 2019
My (sort of) Invisible Handicap, Medium
My Time on the Sofa, Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, Volume 51, Issue 4, April 2011
Notes From the Pain Committee Meeting, Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine, Prose
O Pioneers, The Formalist, Volume 12, Number 1, 2001
Packing to Leave Again, Outlet; National Council Against Domestic Violence newsletter; Degenerates: Voices for Peace; Used in “Voices Unheard, Sisters Unseen” by Women Makes Movies
Repair (The Good Fight), The Poeming Pigeon: A Literary Journal of Poetry, Volume 3, Number 2, 2017
Sleepwalker, The Persimmon Tree: An Online Journal of the Arts by Women Over Sixty, Winter 2019
The Slip, 3Elements Literary Review, Spring 2019
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Headache, Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, Volume 51, Issue 4, April 2011
Treasure, The Lyric, Winter 2008 (revised after publication)
The Tulips are Doomed, The Writers’ Café, 2018
Winter Windows, The Writers’ Café, 2018
After retiring from a column-writing gig lasting eleven years and yielding over 300 personal essays, I find I still have something to say. My thoughts range far and wide, and occasionally deep, on subjects including being an Iowan who misses Colorado; surviving marital violence; raising an amazing daughter and an equally amazing son; being justifiably angry about the world “these days;” writing poetry and plays; wondering if I’ll get Alzheimer’s like my mom and her two brothers; wanting to write about my twin granddaughters without sounding all Hallmark-y; fixing OCD-ish food; making sense of pants that come in shorts / crops / ankle-grazing / bootcut; being a librarian in public, academic, archival, and medical libraries; waiting 46 years to attend my high school reunion; having a gorgeous garden I can’t take care of; seeing a shaman; loving good men despite all the bad ones; and trying to wrest a little joy from life despite an 11-year-and-counting chronic migraine.