charming, melancholy and poignant. wonderful story about alzheimer's and family and being a daughter. appreciated the chronological journal structure & conversational tone. she illustrates alzheimer's quite well. here's two notable passages:

"What happened next was that he shouted at me. He shouted that he wasn't a child and he knew what tomatoes were and those were tomatoes, and that he was my father, and what was my problem, that i couldn't show him some respect. My first instinct was to put the steak knife away became i had never seen him like this, and because i was frightened. He saw what i had five rugby the knife, seemed insulted that i thought he might be dangerous, took his plate and threw it against the wall. It shattered, on cue."

"You mentioned there were some things on your mind, but lately you were having trouble getting to them--accessing them. you had the feeling that all the thoughts were in a box covered in tape, and the trouble was there was too much tape, and the trouble was you didn't have the proper tools to access them--no scissors and no knife-- and it was a lot of trouble-trying to find the end of the rope."