About

My name is Amelia.  I’ve been married for a long time. My husband is the techie sort, always interested in some new amazing thing.  He and I are as opposite as we can be. Our accumulated wealth is in the form of four amazing kids.  I have worked as a social worker for a very long time.  I am amazed by the beauty of people I sit with – shame notwithstanding and am always surprised by the power of dignity and love to heal. My hobbies are pretty simple.  Sharing a chair with my husband, looking into the faces of our kids and hearing what they just thought to tell, quilting colors, music.. mostly jazz, poetry, good books if I ever get a minute to read, moving my body in water, on a bike, in my shoes up a mountain or along a trail, and all over the house picking up the messes that never end.

All stories written about patients are a composite of thousands of patients I’ve seen over the years.  I will never break confidentiality of a patients’ story.  There are themes and patterns, however, after seeing this many patients, that emerge well worth sharing that I find to be beautiful.  This is why I mix and match my experiences to share pictures of people and their lives with my readers.

Amelia