Column: Vacation Friends

I by no means have a photographic memory but do believe I can vividly remember a lot of things, especially small moments that probably should have no business taking up space in my brain. I am also the same guy that knows there is a council meeting I need to record at 7 p.m. and will realize at 9:15 that I completely blanked it.

I wish there was some sort of happy medium but there most likely isn’t.

The other day I had a memory that popped into my head that I had no idea was there and I wondered why in the world it just showed up out of the blue. It was not some life-defining moment and I real...