When we remember something,

When we remember something, we’re taking bits and pieces of experience – sometimes from different times and places – and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction. The process of calling it into conscious awareness can change it, and now you’re storing something that’s different. … Read more

Then my mother shocked

Then my mother shocked me. She said, \” All those things that you want from your relationship, Liz? I have always wanted those things too.\” [She] showed me the handful of bullets she’d had to bite over the decades in order to stay happily married (and she was happily married…) to my father. \”You have … Read more