Between Shifts is a collection of vignettes in poetry written over a 30 year period of time and career as a professional nurse, wife, mother, and artist; each depicting a camera's eye view into the worlds of conflicts and compassion, relationships and love, life and death, growth and understanding. The poetic insight brings the depth of emotion and recognition of the truth of situations, actions and acceptance to our own lives. The collection blends delicate detail with bold and provocative imagery, arousing the senses and the mind. The reader is led to explore and reveal their own emotions, judgments and reactions, growing in realization and acknowledgement of the beauty of the human experience.