Anne Bashkiroff was a pioneer in the fight for Alzheimer’s awareness. Her dear husband, Sasha, suffered for nine years with this terrible brain- and soul-damaging illness. Anne was faced with unanswered questions, economic heartaches, and lonely nights of suffering. The consequences of Alzheimer's and the extended burden the disease places on families and caregivers was not fully known in the 1970s. Instead of giving up, Bashkiroff moved to make the world aware of the silent disease. Her strength and dedication led her to help establish the Family Survival Project. In 1979, she testified before First Lady Rosalynn Carter about the needs of caregivers. Bashkiroff turned her inward suffering to outward hope.
Gail Bernice Holland is an award-winning journalist who has worked on newspapers and magazines in Britain and the United States. She was a staff writer for Home Magazine in London, England, a feature writer for the San Francisco Examiner newspaper, and editor of Connections magazine published by the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Holland is known for her books and articles that explore new ways of thinking and acting, and her honors include the California State Bar Sigma Delta Chi Press award for "outstanding achievement by an editorial worker in reporting and interpreting the administration of justice in California." Holland has also worked in the movie industry, written radio commentaries, and is the author of the following books:
LATEST BOOK - JUST PUBLISHED
Love Each Day: Live each day so you would want to live it again. (Loving Healing Press, 2009) Forty true stories about a day in the life of a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader, a police officer, a Nobel Prize scientist, a comedian, a bus driver, an Olympic athlete, a teacher, a baseball player - people in different careers, people from all walks of life. Read their stories; learn life lessons. These inspirational stories remind us how to spend time treasuring time.
Other books by Gail Bernice Holland:
Forget-Me-Not (Purdue University Press, 2007), A Call for Connection ((New World Library, 1998) and For Sasha, with Love (Dembner Books, 1985).
To read reviews of Holland's books and some of her articles explore Google using the author's full name: Gail Bernice Holland
