But as the notebook recalled memories of lessons I'd had — both as a child and later, once the piano became my life — I wondered if my story was all that different.
But my own memories of music lessons are far less glamorous.
"So many people have bad memories of swimming lessons," says Fugaccia.
One of her earliest memories of swimming lessons at the Saxon Woods pool is of putting her face in the water, eyes closed, then opening them for the first time.
Many, many of the individuals who retreated, in their later youth, into loud nightclubs and all-night warehouse parties to null the pain of teenage awkwardness and hideous memories of PE lessons, then suddenly find themselves aged 30-plus stepping out of a SpinCycle class in damp Lycra feeling as high as a ruddy kite.
Both findings from the science of memory and lessons from our long history of invention reveal that data storage is not memory.
Ironically, half a century later, with the Soviet Union itself only a distant memory, the lessons of the crisis for current policy have never been greater.
A combination of to-do list, memory jogger, diary and record of lessons learned, wheel books ensured that all hands received and were accountable for orders and instructions.
With each spoonful, I tried to wipe away the memory of my first sex lesson.
After collaborating with Epstein and Creamer, he worked with Bob Smith on a 1967 book of memories and lessons called "The Education of a Baseball Player;" Herb Gluck on a 1985 biography, "The Mick;" Phil Pepe on the 1991 memoir of his Triple Crown season, "My Favorite Summer: 1956;" and Mickey Herskowitz on a 1994 World Series reminiscence, "All My Octobers".
