Ginkgo Biloba, Take Me Away!
When I was pregnant with Lili, I developed a severe case of what my kids called "Baby Brain." While we were out driving, I'd occasionally forget where I was and where I was going. I can distinctly remember an occasion when we left my kids' primary school and were driving through the tiny Welsh village of Radyr. I took a couple of mindless turns, then stopped the car, looked over at the five year old in the passenger seat and asked, "Where in the heck are we?!" She stared back at me with her mouth gaping and replied with astonishment, "Don't you know?" Honestly I did not know. I also wasn't sure what day of the week it was or what the intended destination was when I began driving. I'd regularly haul my happy, pregnant self upstairs, walk into my bedroom and realize I had completely forgotten why I had come up in the first place. I'd wrack my brain furiously for about ten seconds, and then I'd decide that I might as well ...