MEMORY

I'm not sure when my memory started waning. I think it was a long time ago. I remember fellow teacher, Mr. Blair remembering stuff that had happened to me that I had long forgotten. And that was 20 years ago.

I can remember where most of my students sat during my first five years of teaching or so. In fact I can remember where most of my high school English IV class sat. But five months or so after I retired I ran into one of my student assistants that I had had the last semester I taught and I couldn't remember her name. (I do remember sharing this info in an earlier blog.) I had had both of her parents in class and I could recall their names, just not hers.

And that's just people. Movies--I'm terrible about. A Hard Day's Night, of course I saw it. And can tell you nothing about it except that the Beatles ran around a lot in the movie. I'm that way with current ones, too, and books, and golf courses. I'm playing a course today that I've played probably 15 times, but can't remember how to get there. (In my defense, the Phoenix area has over 200 courses now, and I've played at least 65 of them in various locales such as Buckeye, Avondale, Cave Creek, et al.) I can remember the first 5 holes or so, and that's good for me. One of my friends will be talking about a particular hole on a particular course and I will have no recall of the "par 3 over water with the huge trap on the left and drop off on the back".

So while I'm great on birthdays ( I've never missed anybody's) and other trivial stuff (Junior Spivey was signed to play second base for the Cardinals, Tim Kearney was a middle linebacker for the St. Louis Cardinals), I fail miserably in other areas of memory.

Selective memory lapse or loss would be great. I'm not so sure about that gaps in mine though.