Bonnie McGovern has forty-eight years of experience counseling and caring for friends and relatives, including sixteen years of caring for loved ones with Alzheimer's.

When she was just three years old, the author watched and helped her mother care for and heal her father of polio. She watched her mother heal with humor, determination and optimism. She learned, compassion, kindness, patience and strength. Many years later, she put her knowledge to use, helping her father, mother and finally, her sister, pass on to the other side.

Ms. McGovern shares her knowledge with various healthcare organizations, speaking to groups including the Alzheimer's Association Group of Caregivers in Medford, Oregon, and the Kauai Hospice Caregivers in Hawaii. She helps caregivers to better understand the disease, as well as to cope with their own conflicting emotions and the erratic behavior of patients.

As a massage therapist, the author has worked on cruise ships around the world, where she gave weekly lectures on health, massage and positive thinking.
She is also a poet and mother. While raising her two sons, the author ran her own nationally distributed greeting card line. She graduated from the University of Puget Sound with an Art and History degree and worked at The White House in Washington, D.C., as assistant curator during the Johnson Administration.

Today, Bonnie McGovern lives on the islands of Kauai and Maui, Hawaii with her two cats and two Arabian horses. Her roots in Hawaii date back to 1858. In the 1880's her great-great grandmother and great grandmother sewed for the King and Queen of the Hawaiian Islands.