I wasn’t sure how I would feel if the Cubs won the World Series. I’ve been a Cubs fan my entire life. And I admit I shed a few tears of joy when the game was over. But I wasn’t crying for me. I shed those tears as some very special memories of my younger…
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Do you ever experience hearing random notes of music, and it triggers a memory of some old song? I’ve had it happen a few times recently. I don’t know why, but I can just hear a couple or random music notes or even some small chord progression and it triggers a memory for some song…
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In life there are events that seemed so important when they happened, but now have been simply forgotten. I call them vague memories. They’re the memories that other people can help you remember even if they aren’t planning on it. Your friends remember one thing, and that triggers something completely different…
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Number association is a big part of our lives. You may not notice it at first, but take a look at today’s podcast title. It’s episode 1963. If you’re like me a picture has already formed. We associate numbers with people, places, and things all the time. I don’t about you, but right now I’m…
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Do we have any control over what we remember? I was visiting a town I used to live in, and felt like I had never been there before. And I don’t think it was because things have changed that much. It made me wonder how we truly remember the things that do actually remember…
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I’m a pack rat and I definitely love my ‘things’. But over the last few years I’ve become less interested in amassing more stuff and become more interested in collecting memories. I have a feeling there is a big correlation between these possessions and memories…
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Our niece Hattie turned 3 this week and we’re heading north to celebrate. To me, the third birthday is one of the most important birthdays, because you life truly begins when you’re 3 years old…
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We all have those foods that remind us of childhood. They’re foods that we crave even as we grow old. For me, one of those things is deviled ham. You remember the sandwich spread made by the Underwood Company? I think it’s still around, but wonder why I never hear about it…
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I was sitting here the other night clicking through the channels when the movie Ghost of Girlfriends past came on. Now I realize that it just happened to be shear coincidence that one of my exes was celebrating her birthday. And that made me wonder…
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There’s an old song by the group Alabama called ‘Jukebox In My Mind’. I played the song hundreds upon hundreds on times when I worked in radio. The other day I was reminded of that mental jukebox but it had nothing to do with the group Alabama. It actually involved Dan Fogelberg and John Lennon….
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