My earliest complete memory is happy....riding in a red toy train full of other toddlers, in a brand new park I’d never seen before, feeling super overwhelmed and full of cake and then some fuzzy time later FIREWORKS (which I loved and still love). I think the reason I remember this many details about it is because I…

I NEW Shoney’s existed! I haven’t seen one in such a long time, for a while I was wondering if I was just falsely remembering Denny’s or Perkin’s, or that perhaps Shoney’s was swallowed up in the same space-time paradox that changed the spelling of the Berenstain Bears.

Can relate. When my kid was 3 months she sort of half-flopped and rolled off the changing table, smacking the back of her head on the hardwood floor. I tried to break her fall but ending up flailing like a noodley fish while she dropped like a bowling ball. We were both bawling. I was full on in the throes of PPD and…

It makes sense that fear and pain would impress your herd of hippocampus seahorses deeply, because remembering moments of fear and pain can save your life later.

My very earliest memory is walking around a table full of adults and accidentally lighting a lighter (lots of smokers in my family) and scaring the bejesus out of myself with the flame. I want to say I was 2 or 3.

Psychoanalysts don’t agree about the significance of early memories.

When my now-toddler was three months old, I dropped him. He flopped back in my arm and slipped out, and his head hit our dining room table, and then the floor. We rushed him to Urgent Care, they did an MRI, and the MRI showed a (to my eyes) huge crack through one of the plates of his skull. After showing this to us,…

out of my 4 most vivid early childhood memories, 3 are when i was terrified (including such inanity as my brother and his friends telling me that the boogeyman lived in the woods at the bottom of the sledding hill so i would leave them alone; i was a very impressionable child)

They were discussing.....................