J. Ted Obenour

About the Author

Ted is a retired executive that consulted Fortune 500 Companies around the world, leading milestone projects like the Hubble Space Telescope and other major change programs. 

Ted retired in 2015 and moved back to Indiana with his wife Christy in 2017.  Ted and Christy traveled extensively and Ted started writing . Ted started his first Novel. and started a Travel Site dedicated to Traveling Lite. 

During this time Ted ‘s health was beginning to fail.  In February 2019 Ted was diagnosed with Lewy Body Demetria as well as rare autoimmune disease. 

Ted focus of his writing shift to helping other people understand dementia and helping people with early onset dementia like Ted.

Ted continued his writing, publishing two books, and two websites, he also has an active Podcast and YouTube Channel called “Dementia Talks”. All publications are geared to reach out to others battling early onset Dementia. All his work is focused on helping others to live a positive productive life as long as they are able to with dementia.

Recent Work

WanderingLite.com

Wandering Lite is a collection of articles/blogs published between February 2020 and Present.

DementiaTalks.net

Dementia Talks website is organized to take a person looking to learn about dementia, i.e. a person with early onset dementia. it is organized so that no mater what your knowledge base is there are things to help you learn how to accept your life of living with dementia and live a positive and fruitful life.

Dementia Talks – Podcast

Dementia Talks podcast started in 2020 and is continuing on all rss formats on popular podcast players including iTunes Radio.

Dementia Talks – YouTube Channel

Dementia Talks YouTube covers interviews and other topics covered on WanderingLite.com and Dementia Talks.

Published Books – “A Personal Journey into Dementia copyright 2023

Published on Amazon in both Kindle and paperback in large format print for easy reading.

Up-Coming Books

Patsy the Little Service Dog – “Gets Her Name and Finds Her Purpose” –

This book was written for Ted’s Grandchildren about Patsy who is PaPa’s Service Dog. It shows how Service Dogs come in all shapes and sizes to perform different services. This is the start of a series about Patsy’s adventures with PaPa.

“God’s Challenged”

God’s Challenged is a mystery SyFy Novel that places and secret force that battles against elements of the Dark Side that would use long lost artifacts to control the world.