Around the bend: Making sense of memory lapses

Posted on January 14, 2010 |

• Editorial

By Jessie Raymond

“Cybill Shepherd!”

There are worse things a person could spontaneously shout while standing in line at the grocery store. As it was, my outburst caused the checkout clerk to drop a dozen eggs and a person in the next line to look around and say, “Where?”

But it was a moment of triumph for me, a welcome relief after three long days of frustration.

It all started on a family road trip to Massachusetts, when we passed a driver who looked kind of like Bruce Willis.

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