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Our Global Health Care Journey Within God's Greater Reality
Memoirs and Reflections
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Most individuals who embark on a health care career discover quite early that their working journey is one of responding to others’ needs. No matter what the circumstance or where the location, health care is a global need requiring a response...
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Why Men Also Cry
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Larry’s story begins in 1938 in a small cabin without running water or electricity in the Nova Scotia wilderness. Born to an irresponsible mother and an absent father, he and his sisters suffer neglect until they are eventually separated and...
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7 Days to Death?
One Woman's Battle Against GBS*
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What would you do if you were suddenly stricken with some sort of disease that left you a paraplegic? How would you cope if your condition could even kill you? This is what happened to me. But I am still here. This story details my struggles as I...
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A Chameleon from the Land of the Quagga
An Immigrant's Story
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Growing up ‘European’ in 1930s and ‘40s South Africa, Joan leads a privileged life … though marred by family tragedy. After she escapes her Victorian grandmother’s repressive upbringing to study midwifery, she comes face to face with the racial...
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My Two Years in Colombia
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John has loved traveling his whole life, and in the early 2000s it was the country of Colombia that captured his heart. Always ready for something new, he recounts his adventures to beautiful beaches, history-filled cities and everything the...
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Broken Silence
Finding My Voice in a World That Tried to Keep Me Quiet
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After surviving abuse in her childhood home in India, Sarah flees to the promised safety of an arranged marriage in Canada. But when she arrives, she discovers that her new husband is as dangerous as the trauma she left behind. Isolated from her...
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Dearest Mother
Letters from the Australian Gold Rush and Beyond
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“I have often wished that some of you were here to see the strange things I see.” —Walter Bentley Woodbury, 1853 In 1852, eighteen-year-old Walter Bentley Woodbury set sail from England to Australia in search of gold. What he found instead,...
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Back Seat Advice
More Life Lessons From Treating Animals
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For almost forty years, Dr. Michael High had a front-row seat to witness the relationships between pets and those who care for them through his veterinary practice. Back Seat Advice chronicles just some of the stories that touched his heart, from...
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Drinking from the Iceberg
Memoirs of a Field Zoologist
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What does it take to succeed as a field zoologist, particularly as a woman in a heavily male-dominated industry? Resilience, adaptability and a longing for adventure. These are the traits that Lorna Lyons highlights in her personal memoir,...
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Through the Grey Skies
A Mother’s Journey of Grief and Hope
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“It wasn’t supposed to be this way.” Every mother carries hopes and dreams for her unborn child, rarely imagining a motherhood journey that veers so far from the path she once envisioned. Through tender storytelling and honest reflection, Megan...
