Welcome to the Memory Project, a response to some recent feedback on my website. As those who frequent www.lauralippman.com know, I have resisted blogging because I have on-and-off problems with my wrists and forearms.

I also have an increasingly poor memory, but a theory that I can improve it the way I would my muscles or lungs -- through use and training. Because the majority of people who come to my site seem to associate me with Baltimore, the memory project will center on idosyncratic fragments of my young life here.