Senior Moments: Or has Time Rewritten Every Line ...

New Haven Register › January 28, 2010

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I happened to watch "The Way We Were," an excellent old movie about nostalgia for the past, which also featured the lovely song "Memories," soon after reading an article on the subject of memory in the current National Geographic.

That coincidence caused me to reflect on whether events in the past often seem superior to those in the present or whether we only recall the positive and have a way of forgetting any unpleasantness.

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Senior Moments: Or has Time Rewritten Every Line ...

The coming holidays bring certain memories into a special, sharp focus. Although, when Christmas approaches, I still travel to New York City to view "the tree" at Rocke...

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