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