Archive for July, 2008

Music as a powerful catalyst for memory

Friday, July 18th, 2008

It’s amazing how quickly the first soulful notes of R.E.M.’s “Drive” can throw me back to the early summer of 1993.
Their Automatic for the People CD had just arrived unrequested as the Columbia House auto-ship-of-the-month, and I called my best friend to ask if she thought I should keep the CD. She didn’t really have [...]