My partner and I have done a fair amount of traveling in the last few months: We took a two-week driving trip out West at the end of August, and we went to Wisconsin twice for short trips in September and October. I also went to Wisconsin with a friend for a five-day writing retreat at the beginning of October. And so, traveling in the time of forgetfulness has been very much on my mind.

What I mean by the time of forgetfulness is this time in my life, when I am a woman of a certain age, as they used to say politely back in the day. I’m a baby boomer, and so are many of my friends and a ton of other people, so there are a lot of us of a certain age, experiencing the time of forgetfulness. And maybe it’s not just aging that’s creating all our forgetfulness. Maybe there’s something about the time we’re living in that’s making everyone forgetful.

All I know is that every time I tell someone that I am getting forgetful and it’s driving me crazy because........

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