By Kathleen Thomas Gaspar
Just about the time my own children began blessing me with grandchildren, a peculiar thing started happening in my pre-frontal lobe.
The pre-frontal lobe, dear readers, is the brain’s very own file cabinet for short-term memory. I know because I Googled (or, more precisely, Binged) it on line. And just because I am at this moment in time explaining the pre-frontal lobe and its critical role in our ability to remember facts and figures doesn’t mean the information will still be with me 24 hours from now.