Book excerpt: Alzheimer's and a Spoon takes its readers on a tangled trip. Public stories - a conversation at the Castle of the Insane, online quizzes to determine if you're mostly meercat or Hufflepuff . #stainlessteelkudos. Personal tales, of Liz's babcia, a devout Catholic and a soldier in the Warsaw Uprising, who spent her last years with Alzheimer's disease. There is much to remember that she so badly wanted to forget. What do you do when life gives you spoons?