American Songwriter

Alabama’s “Mountain Music” Is My First and Last Memory of My Dad

It was 1982, and I was three years old. My dad owned a car repair shop in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, near where I grew up in Sevierville. My first life memory is listening to Alabama’s “Mountain Music” ...
New York Post

Forget ‘50 First Dates’ — I went on 50,000 with my husband and I didn’t remember my own child

For one woman, her every day is like a “real life ’50 First Dates’.” Nesh Pillay, 34, suffered a traumatic brain injury that resulted in amnesia and she forgot she had a daughter or who her boyfriend ...
The New York Times

Welcoming My First Marriage Into My Second

Is it better to bury memories of past relationships, or embrace them? By Mary Leavines There is a note tucked into the center console of my husband’s truck that reads, with devotion and warmth: “I ...
The New Yorker

My Mother’s Memory Loss, and Mine

My cat, Harriet, is curled up on the TV console when I walk into the living room. She blinks at me, slowly. Cats blinking at you is supposed to be a sign of affection. I blink back. “Look at you on ...
CNN

‘My Father’s Shadow’ is an ode to memory and loss, blazing a trail for Nigerian cinema

Inside the Grand Theatre Lumiere, one of cinema’s great cathedrals in Cannes, France, Akinola Davies Jr. stood, acknowledging the applause of over 2,000 peers. The British Nigerian director had just ...