My visit with Grandpa and Gen went well, after I endured several small ordeals on the way there (forgetting the paperwork for my doctor, getting gasoline sprayed all over my shoes at the gas station, and then driving in the pouring rain on the Thruway). We ate out a lot, went on a train ride along the Hudson River in the Adirondack Mountains, went ( Read more... )

In order to remember things well enough to speak reasonably intelligently about them, I need to have them repeated to me multiple times. I need to read about it multiple times. I need to hear it from someone else's mouth, preferably multiple times. Writing about it helps, too ( Read more... )