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During 2014, Authorhouse published two of my books, Vignettes of Yvette at Vi and More Vignettes of Yvette at Vi. This new book contains even more vignettes of my wife, Yvette, and those words provide its title. Yvette is in a memory support unit at the care center that is attached to a large and elegant retirement home called Vi at Palo Alto. These vignettes are meant to demonstrate that a new life can be created for dementia sufferers-a life that is interesting and enjoyable, contains much beauty, and presents challenges that can make this new life meaningful. Carmen, Marcela, the...

Dying Inside, Loving Your True Skin is a powerful, inspirational wellness empowerment book that calls an urgent attention to the unpopular, hidden, detrimental, toxic chemicals found in some skin bleaching products. The inordinate desire to enhance even skin tone or to attain a lighter skin color with the intention of being perceived as more beautiful has blinded many to the deleterious heath consequences of skin lightening. The prolong and regular misuse of these deleterious products to attain tone enhancement has been an epidemic of many people of various cultures worldwide, including...

This is a true story of how John felt and reacted to the decline of his wife, Yvette, into the quicksands of dementia. The story relates how he, Carmen (the companion to Yvette), and others struggled, sometimes against "wise counsel," to prevent Yvette from sliding downhill mentally and physically. Their love for Yvette gave them the incentive and the energy to fight against the odds and to achieve some positive results. Really though, this is a love story of a husband for his wife together for sixty-nine years.

Authorhouse, in the past year, published three of my books about my wife, Yvette, who was in a memory support unit at a care center that is affiliated with a large, luxury retirement home named Vi at Palo Alto. Yvette was there, with dementia, for almost three years, until her death in December 2014. My previous three books about Yvette recorded how Carmen (her superb caregiver), I, and others gave her a new life that was interesting, challenging, full of beauty, and fashioned to keep her as healthy (mentally and physically) as our abilities and efforts allowed. This book continues our...