Personal Projects: My Grandmother

My grandmother has always been a strong woman and a role model to me. When I was a kid, she read to me for hours on end. The Ramona books were my favorites. Until a couple of years ago, she still went on archeological digs around the Mediterranean, worked in the archives to a museum about the diaspora in Tel Aviv, and attended lectures regularly.

Now, she’s still healthy and active. But she has Alzheimer’s, and I know things will only get worse and not better. She’s still the strong woman I remember, but the problem is all that she doesn’t remember.