Welcome to Wherever We Are: A Memoir of Family, Caregiving, and Redemption is aimed for a general audience and is fully interdisciplinary. Written in accessible prose and appropriate for a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses, you might consider adopting this book.
If you choose to use my book in any of your classes, please know that I would be happy to visit with your students virtually or in person. Please contact me. I would love to hear from you!
Here are some disciplines for which the book would be applicable:
- Sociology
- Psychology
- Social Work
- Gender Studies and Women’s Studies
- Family Studies
- English and Creative Writing
- Human Services
- Gerontology
- Medical Humanities
- Public Health
- Nursing
- Violence, Trauma, Social Justice
- Community Health
- Communications/ Advertising
- Interdisciplinary Studies

Specifically, within my own discipline of sociology, the book would be especially compelling in classes such as:
- Introduction to Sociology
- Social Problems
- Self and Society
- Sociology of the Family
- Sociology of Gender
- Women in Society
- Men and Masculinities
- Sociology of Aging
- Death and Dying
- Sociology of the Body
- Sociology of Health and Illness
- Sociology of Food
- Sociology of Literature
- Family Violence
- Senior Capstone