The Winter 2026 edition of the Grandparents for Vaccines newsletter arrives at a moment when the ground beneath childhood immunizations continues to crumble. Federal rollbacks of long-standing vaccine recommendations have landed alongside falling vaccination rates and a resurgence of measles in communities across the country. For families, this has created uncertainty and confusion, layered onto… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: Protecting Children Has Never Been Optional. Ask a Grandparent.
The Relentless School Nurse: When the Gunshot Isn’t Heard – How Parental Firearm Injury Shapes Children’s Mental Health
When a firearm injury happens, our systems know exactly what to do with the person who was shot. Stabilize.Operate.Admit.Discharge. What they are far less prepared to do is notice the children who go home afterward — the ones whose sense of safety has been quietly, sometimes permanently, disrupted. A new open-access study in the New… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: When the Gunshot Isn’t Heard – How Parental Firearm Injury Shapes Children’s Mental Health
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The Relentless School Nurse: When Confusion Is the Point
 A note to readers:This piece is written from my perspective as a nurse and public health advocate. It is grounded in publicly available reporting, video evidence, and professional ethics related to care, safety, and accountability. I write because silence has consequences. Disagreement is part of public discourse; incivility is not.  I’ve been thinking a… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: When Confusion Is the Point
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The Relentless School Nurse: What Happens When the Helpers Are Harmed
Author’s NoteI wrote this piece while trying to understand something that feels deeply broken: what it means when people who show up to help are harmed, and when accountability feels harder to reach than reassurance. This is not an attempt to offer easy answers. It is an invitation to sit with the questions, to refuse… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: What Happens When the Helpers Are Harmed
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The Relentless School Nurse: My Line in the Sand – Respectful Discussion is Welcome. Personal Attacks are Not
 This picture is of me — someone who has done this work for decades and is not flinching. I write The Relentless School Nurse. I write as a school nurse, not as a metaphor, but as a lived, professional identity. For nearly a decade, this space has been where I bear witness to how… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: My Line in the Sand – Respectful Discussion is Welcome. Personal Attacks are Not
