Madeleines

This was the source of Burt’s favorite treat:

Madeleines

For a while, Burt only ate either lemon meringue tarts or Madeleine cookies. I took his love of the latter with a grain of irony that they were the snack of choice in Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu.

My secret irony was the search for that lost time,  a thing that my love would never regain. Time runs on a different track for the person with dementia.