This is an excerpt from my opinion piece first published in the Springfield Daily Citizen on Friday, Aug. 4.
I feel the need to set the record straight.
In my last column, I listed the life lessons that could be learned from baseball, as well as other sports. Then I described one specific lesson learned from one specific game in 1971. Several of you oohed and aahed at the detail I included and complimented my “unbelievable memory.”
I wish.
There are two parts to my explanation. First, I learned long ago that our memories are not particularly dependable and tend to be very selective. I sometimes can’t remember an idea from our utility room to our kitchen, which are separated by a doorway. For more than 45 years, I have carried notecards and a pen in my pocket so I can write things down. If I don’t put events in my phone calendar, I’m in trouble. I frequently have to mentally go through the alphabet to try to come up with a name I can’t remember.
You get the idea. I tell people my A drive still works; it just doesn’t spin as fast as it used to.
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I feel the need to set the record straight.
In my last column, I listed the life lessons that could be learned from baseball, as well as other sports. Then I described one specific lesson learned from one specific game in 1971. Several of you oohed and aahed at the detail I included and complimented my “unbelievable memory.”
I wish.
There are two parts to my explanation. First, I learned long ago that our memories are not particularly dependable and tend to be very selective. I sometimes can’t remember an idea from our utility room to our kitchen, which are separated by a doorway. For more than 45 years, I have carried notecards and a pen in my pocket so I can write things down. If I don’t put events in my phone calendar, I’m in trouble. I frequently have to mentally go through the alphabet to try to come up with a name I can’t remember.
You get the idea. I tell people my A drive still works; it just doesn’t spin as fast as it used to.
Read the full opinion article here >>