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I have a meeting scheduled for 11 am today. It’s an important meeting that I don’t want to miss… but there’s this niggling little voice that keeps telling me to check with the client to be sure I’ve got the date right.

Of course, I’m wrong. Right time, wrong date. Client sent me back an email confirming the meeting is in two weeks!!! Not today.

I can blame it on my electronic calendar not keeping up with reality, or blame it on my memory not keeping up at all. Now that I am in midlife, I find my mind plays such tricks more often than not. So I am searching for, and slowly discovering ways to keep my mind— my memory— at maximum capacity, humming along, working smoothly.

Learning to play an instrument has helped, though I do not practice as well as I should. Sudoku puzzles have become addictive and that keeps my mind buzzing, and I found a couple of websites that have memory games. (See below.)

If you have ideas, or feedback re: memory issues, please share. Thanks.

Memory game sites:

• http://www.youramazingbrain.org/yourmemory/default.htm
• http://www.zefrank.com/memory/