Kirsten Richardson-Pearce

Kirsten L. Richardson-Pearce is a writer/journalist who is passionate about social justice, seeing the world, and engaging with different cultures and ideas. She resides with her husband in the Shenandoah Valley and is discovering her “new normal” while recovering from a stem cell transplant. She blogs at teapotjournalist.com, Instagrams and Facebooks at @theteapotjournalist, and sometimes tweets at @TPotJournalist. Most recently she contributed to a poetry anthology by women affected by cancer; check out WhistleWords.org to learn about the project and women who helped renew her life post SCT.
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I Had No Idea How Much Medicaid Would Cost Me

three white chairs in an empty waiting room

We did our research and weighed the pros and cons alongside our specific circumstances. While I had lived paycheck to paycheck throughout my professional career, my husband had managed to put away a significant “nest egg” while working during and after graduate school—but it was a drop in the bucket compared to the expense of the transplant I needed. Read more