Then, in the 1960's, just as the Royals and minor league baseball were fading from Montrealers' memories, we got our Parisian-style metro system and played host to Canada's 100th birthday, Expo '67.
As we swapped ancient memories, we got to know again -- or for the first time -- classmates with whom we shared our youth.
Many of us oral historians joined the field because of all the wonderful stories we hear and memories we get to be part of - I would say that I fall into that category too.
If you like to pump your music from your iPod for all to hear, and you like to be cruel to animals with seven seconds of memory, have we got the device for you.
We became friends – best friends – and together we created some of my fondest childhood memories, though we got to spend only two short years together.
He refreshed my memory on how we got here, and explained what to watch for in the weeks to come.
"The broader message," said Francine Grodstein, the lead author and an associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, "is that this is the first study that has shown that there are ways, through fairly straightforward lifestyle modifications, that we can help memory as we get older".
Soon we'll master the multitasking of push notification, harness the now, corral the middle into a shared memory where we get reinforcement about the value of savoring our success with change.
Walnuts are full of monounsaturated fats, which keep our arteries clear and even boost our memory as we get older.
The next time he visits, apologetically, Mitch is conciliatory, saying (I quote from memory), "We all get emotional over Mike".
