Letting Go: When Losses are Inevitable Stan Goldberg July 29, 2016 Grieving and Recovery 15 Comments As the Soberanes fire in Carmel, California comes closer to our vacation home, I’m devastated knowing the source of wonderful memories will most...
Squishy Memories: Part III-Corralling The Mind Stan Goldberg March 27, 2015 Life, Thoughts of the Day In some ways, our memories are like a herd of cattle on an open range; trying to go in whatever direction they choose. Unless they can be controlled...
Squishy Memories: Part II-Why Does the Mind Change the Past? Stan Goldberg March 25, 2015 Life, Thoughts of the Day In Part I of this series, I wrote our mind’s creation of memories is unreliable since it has a hidden agenda. In Part II I’ll offer reasons why...
Of Course You Remember Stan Goldberg July 7, 2011 Alzheimer’s/dementia, Poems 27 Comments Of course you remember she says. It was your sixtieth, and we came from across the country to express our love. I don’t remember, I say. But...
Memories: A Call to Reconnect Stan Goldberg April 26, 2010 End of Life 2 Comments Did you ever have a memory that rode into your consciousness on the back of a passing odor, object, or random word? Something you desperately tried to forget? But despite your best efforts, it still seeped through your emotional protective wall as if the wall was made of cheesecloth.