This morning, somewhere between sleeping and being awake, I was trying to remember Dolly Parton’s name. I could see her in my mind’s eye, but I couldn’t recall her name. I knew the shape of her first name and that it had two syllables and that it probably ended in “y”, but I couldn’t remember […]
Tag: memory loss
Seasonal Affective Decision-making
How it works This how seasonal affective disorder works. It keeps you in the house, makes you regret every bad decision you ever made, bashes you over the head with your personal shortcomings, and then teases you with all the things you could have done but didn’t. Here I sit in my little apartment, […]
Memory Loss is Not Funny . . . Usually
There’s nothing funny about memory loss, except maybe this. About a month ago I got an email from the Canadian Association of Retired Persons that said: CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR MEMORY? Take the free online brain health assessment validated by scientists from Baycrest, a world leader in the research of memory and aging. It went on […]