In her book, Remember — The Science of Memory and The Art of Forgetting (©2021), Lisa Genova introduced the major topic (for me) with questions about a common coin we rarely handle in 2026: “Could you draw both sides of a penny with total accuracy from memory right now? How can you both remember a penny and yet remember so little about it? Is your memory failing?”
Scanning 1980s calendars my wife Kay filled with handwritten notes, I’m fascinated by family events I can’t remember … for the life of me. (At my old age, that phrase is much more than just an idiomatic expression.)
