Blog posts
Blog writings from 2020-2021, and back at it in 2025.
(Hi again! Please mind the gap)
What Changed this Vaccine Skeptic’s Mind: A Nurse’s Perspective & Tips for Science Allies
As a former vaccine skeptic who became a nurse and changed my mind, I hope that my perspective is helpful to science educators and science allies as we deal with the daily onslaught of false information and misguided beliefs. Keep educating. You won’t get through to everyone, but you will get through to some people some of the time.

Caring for my medically wary patients
Holistic hippie raver, medically-averse vaccine-skeptic crunchy mama — that was me. As a nurse, that gives me a unique ability to support and advocate for patients who are scared or skeptical of the medical world, including mammograms and medical treatments for breast cancer.