Nancy Jasin Ensley: Hearing a Warning Voice Moments Before a Devastating Car Accident

My life’s work has unfolded at the intersection of service and compassion. I spent my career in the healthcare field, serving as a nurse, consultant, compliance officer, hospice specialist, legal nurse consultant, coding specialist, educator, and supervisor. In every role, I bore witness to the fragility and resilience of the human spirit. Beyond my profession, I have remained devoted to community service, volunteering in blood drives, community health fairs, and home-care initiatives where care is not merely given, but shared.Writing entered my life when I was eight years old and never truly left. What began as a quiet inclination became a lifelong calling one that grew alongside experience, loss, faith, and love. Over the years, I have written hundreds of poems, crafted personal greeting cards, prepared legal and clinical narratives, authored policies, and contributed professional magazine articles. Writing became both refuge and testimony: a way to make sense of the world and to give voice to what is often left unspoken.A defining influence in my journey as a writer came during my senior year at Waite High School, where a demanding, college-level literature teacher shaped my discipline and sharpened my voice. Her rigor taught me that words matter that clarity, honesty, and courage are essential to prose that endures.My poetry has been published in the National Library of Poetry. I share my life with my husband, John, and together we are blessed with five children and fourteen grandchildren each one a living reminder that love multiplies when it is given freely.I am a local author whose work spans multiple genres, rooted in family, faith, service, and lived experience. Whatever the future holds, I intend to remain faithful to the work of reflection and creation, just as I have throughout my career and well into retirement. I write because it is how I listen. I write because it is how I remember. And, by grace, I will keep writing.Website