A smell that brings back a long forgotten friend, an image that makes you unconsciously smile, a song that transports you to another time and place. Experiences we have in life embed themselves in our memories, painting our future expectations in broad brushstrokes of those past experiences, grouping them into categories, filing them away under comfortable headings. RJ and I used to go quite frequently to a Turkish restaurant near our apartment in NYC. It was relatively posh, popular with the … [Read more...]