Published Books
§ Cracking the Health Words Code: A Game Book for Kids, Minnesota Medical Association Alliance, 2005
§ Smiling Through Your Tears: Anticipating Grief, Lois Krahn, MD, Co-author, BookSurge 2005
§ Good Samaritan Dental Clinic: Community Cooperation in Action (booklet), Olmsted County Public Health Services and the Salvation Army, 2004
§ Food Label Detective: An Activity Book, Minnesota Medical Association Alliance, 2002
§ Smart Aging: Taking Charge of Your Physical and Emotional Health, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999
§ The Alzheimer’s Caregiver: Dealing With the Realities of Dementia, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998
§ Alzheimer’s, Finding the Words: A Communication Guide for Those Who Care, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1995 and reprinted in 2002
§ Heart Surgery and You: An Activity Book for Preschoolers, Mayo Press, 1994
§ Heart Surgery and You: An Activity Book for Gradeschoolers, Mayo Press, 1994
§ Heart Surgery and You: A Guide for Teens, Mayo Press, 1994
§ Powerplays: How Teens Can Pull the Plug on Sexual Harassment, Fairview Press, 1993
§ Powerplays Leader’s Guide, Fairview Press, 1993
§ When You Love a Child: For the Times When Caring for Kids is Difficult, Fairview Press, 1992
§ Rochester: City of the Prairie, Windsor Publications, 1989
§ Parents Recover Too: When Your Child Comes Home From Treatment, The Hazelden Foundation, 1988
§ Contraptions, Monday Morning Books, 1987
§ My First Fourth of July Book, The Child’s World, 1987
§ A Parent’s Survival Guide: How to Cope When Your Kid is Using Drugs, Harper/Hazelden, 1986
§ Toyworks, Monday Morning Books, 1986 (a MacMillan Early Learning Book Club Selection)
§ Gameworks, Monday Morning Books, 1986 (a MacMillan Early Learning Book Club Selection)
§ Artworks, Monday Morning Books, 1986 (a MacMillan Early Learning Book Club Selection)
§ E is for Energy, M is for Me, Minnesota State Department of Education, 1980
§ “I Made It Myself!”, Warner Books, 1979 (a Scholastic Book Club Selection)
§ Just for You, Aldrich Memorial Nursery School, 1978
§ “Talking With Alzheimer’s Patients,” Activities Directors’ Quarterly for Alzheimer’s & Other Dementia Patients, Spring 2004
§ American Medical Association Alliance Communication Guide
§ Minnesota Medicine
§ Minnesota Medical Association Alliance Media Kit, 2004
§ Tobacco Smoke is No Joke, health facts card on the effects of smoking, published by the Minnesota Medical Association Alliance, 2003
§ Facts on Fizz, health facts card on the effects of soda pop, published by the Minnesota Medical Association Alliance, 2004
§ Minnesota Medical Association Alliance membership brochure, 2004
§ Communication Chair, Reelect Jean Michaels Campaign (to Olmsted County MN Board)
§ Epotec, Inc. health information web site, 2000
§ Special features articles for the Rochester Post-Bulletin
§ Mayo Clinic 1996 Annual Report
§ Mayo Clinic Complete Book of Pregnancy & Baby’s First Year, Chapter 41, “Sisters and Brothers,” Mayo/Morrow, 1994
§ Designer/Editor/Writer of The CardioVision 20/20 Newsletter
§ Manuscript revision, My Weight Control Handbook, Mayo Press
§ Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine, monthly column, 1995-1996, 1998-1999
§ Food writer for the former Rochester Magazine
§ Writer/Editor, Metafile Systems Marketing Department
§ Womanwords: A Journal for Myself, The Hazelden Foundation
§ Minnesota Part-Time Professionals Newsletter