Martha Weinman Lear

“Oh, how I loved this book! Rarely do you find one that informs as it entertains. Martha Lear does both. I laughed out loud and was reassured to know that when my friends and I forget names (as we so often do), it’s normal!”

“Why did I write ‘Where Did I Leave My Glasses?’? Well, of course: Because I could never find my glasses. Because I kept forgetting people’s names, and what I was just about to say, and why I had gone into the kitchen.

Precisely the same thing was happening to my friends. It was our communal complaint and we all laughed about it, but there was always a worried edge to the laughter. And when I got worried enough, I took myself to a neurologist to be tested.

“’Your kind of memory loss is perfectly normal,’ he told me. Normal! Hallelujah! ‘But it terrifies millions of baby boomers, because they do not know that it’s normal.’

“Which is what convinced me to write this book. I spent two years interviewing some of the most distinguished neuroscientists, neurologists and psychologists in the country. And I hope that readers will find the result informative, entertaining and – most hopefully of all – reassuring.”