Growing up in a small town in northern Kentucky, I always loved writing. Many short stories and poems sat quietly in my notebooks at home while life proceeded in an unpredictable way. After my husband was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy and had a heart transplant, I went to nursing school to be able to help support my family. The basis of my writing then became clinical situations and research papers while my creative side waited patiently again. After a breast cancer diagnosis, I began to understand all the different perspectives of healthcare situations and how they can affect how we heal; the...