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What if you could push rewind to relive any memory from your past as vividly and accurately as the day it happened?
What days of your life would you choose to live again?
Anne Weller Barnes craves the close family she sees in her mind's eye and in the decades-old family movies. But in Anne's actual family, mysterious and shocking circumstances surrounding a long-ago tragedy have created conflict and cut-off.
When her estranged brother dies and leaves her an invention called the Memory Enhancer that she can use to program her dreams to re-experience old memories as clearly as the day they were made, Anne plunges into her past.
She hopes to recapture the family closeness she remembers, but as she finds herself increasingly caught up in bygone days, she discovers powerful forgotten memories and regrets, and faces family members' anger and distrust.
Anne's anguish builds as she faces her brother's dying wish that she decide whether to release the Memory Enhancer to the world.
Bittersweet Memories is a moving story that explores yearning for the past, the unreliability of memory, and the powerful impact of family secrets.
Bittersweet Memories A novel Lynn Osterkamp 9781933826516 Books
Bittersweet Memories ISBN: 9781933826523, PMI Books a novel by Lynn Osterkamp.Plot: The protagonist, Anna’s family has strong roots in Helena, Montana where her grandfather, Edmund Weller, found gold in 1883 and began the family that became ranchers, lawyers and politicians. Her father started Weller & Associates in 1940 which she joined in 1966 after graduating from law school followed by her brother Dan in 1970. She went on to become a judge and now is 73-year-old judge retiree caring for her husband Jerry who is quite frail and in advanced stages of Alzheimer’s. She has just lost her dearest friend Martha with whom she has been inseparable except for the years they were at different colleges. They had returned, married their hometown boyfriends and began their adult lives, much of which were the mundane activities associated with life of marriage and professional activity – Martha’s family were in banking. Along with their constant relationship, Anna’s children, their spouses and their children, and brother Dan constantly remained in close contact. Unfortunately her sister Sandra became a Nun and would not even speak with her and another brother Ned had gone to the west coast, became a neuroscience professor and also completely lost contact with the family. The loss of these siblings, how and why it occurred and the reactions of family members at the time as well as of a much later period are presented in some detail from their point of view as well as that of Anna who always has indulged in positive, although as we learn, often not quite correct memories. The story culminates in a quite thorough family discussion of the surprisingly positive result of Ned’s extensive use of his training, of Sandra’s ultimate reaction and Anna’s final acceptance of the fact that every family may not be able to attain the beautiful family existence as she remembers pictured on TV for the Walton’s or similarly portrayed groups.
Discussion: The author has set forth a tale that, although somewhat depressing, many readers will find quite enchanting. Her characters belong to a closely knit family but are interestingly portrayed as being quite diverse in their attitudes, actions and reactions and neuroscientist Ned’s device, along with all accompanying details and discussion, presents an intriguing basis upon which to build the tale. Regrettably, knowledgeable hunters and mystery devotees will be disturbed by the number of unanswered questions that arise from this basic element of the story.
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Bittersweet Memories A novel Lynn Osterkamp 9781933826516 Books Reviews
The author has drawn on her own family experiences and own longing to revisit her family’s past. Her parents died when she was young and they were young (although neither of them was shot), and she and her siblings have felt the impact of that in many ways.
She created the Memory Enhancer for her fictional family to help them learn from their pasts, and in the process she also learned a lot about herself and remembered much that she had forgotten.
Do you think the Memory Enhancer would be a good invention? The author expects someone will eventually create it and we will find out.
Lynn Osterkamp, Ph.D., MSW, is the author of three mystery novels, Too Near the Edge, Too Far Under; and Too Many Secrets; as well as two nonfiction books, numerous articles, manuals and national newsletters. Her professional experience includes hospital and hospice social work, university teaching and research, special education, and serving as a long-term-care ombudsman. She lives in Boulder Colorado.
In Bitter Sweet Memories, Clint Barnes tells that the Memory Enhancer was invented by his uncle Ned Weller, who was a prominent neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego before he died of cancer the month before.
“Uncle Ned had been estranged from the family for more than forty years. I never even met the guy. So it was strange that he left this invention to Mom, but apparently he thought she was the best person to figure out what to do."
How many of us struggle with bad experiences or memories, the “old tapes” that come back to haunt us at the most inopportune times? The negative imprint of painful, stressful, or unpleasant experiences can be triggered by current situations or reminders, making us feel more like a Pavlovian dog experiment than thinking and reasoning humans. New studies have unlocked the key to this mechanism, offering hope for improvement to everyone.
The author as specialist in welfare and social care, concentrates around memory impacting on relationships. Let us use the example of relationships to illustrate the point.
Each person has a history of various relationships, often with bad memories associated. Also, the longer two people are together the more stressful times they go through together, creating potentially negative memories. At any time, especially if either person is stressed out or physically worn down, “old relationship tapes” can start to play. Such experiences may have contextual problem solving value (the lessons learned), but they may also carry with them highly reactive emotions and inappropriate behavior, along with very poor mood. It can be like looking at your life through a toxic pair of sunglasses.
How can such old memories be changed so that the problem solving value of the experience can be maintained, yet the highly reactive emotions can be neutralized? How can you live long term with another and maintain the positive bond as the priority, while lessoning the negative garbage of the past? No doubt, solving this problem could save a lot of marriages and families, as well as helping those who stick it out to be a lot happier.
Research shows that what you really need is a "memory enhancer." If you have that then exposure to the current stimuli can be reprogrammed so that the past memories are nullified, yet left as experience. The “negative changes” can dissipate or evaporate, never to bother you again.
The work done by all disciplines relating to neuro-science and holistic therapies do become relevant and can help you truly restructure and reconsolidate your memories. A multi- disciplinary approach which includes psycho- physical and nutritional therapy, is needed and science will show up more mechanisms.
The story however fictional, also enlighten the role Artificial Intelligence (A I) which can lead us to a new discovery.
Excerpt
"....in my mind’s eye, laughing as we celebrated one of her birthdays with a decadent chocolate cheesecake, then hiked the Mount Helena Ridge Trail the next day to work off the extra calories. More old memories surfaced, bittersweet, like the wine in my glass, yet fortifying, like the love we had shared. Taking time to remember gave me strength to move forward. I reflected on how reminiscence comforted me, and I wondered why that wasn’t true for Dan."
In conclusion from Anne, the story's protagonist
"After ME visits had contradicted my memories and raised red flags about my ability to remember, I had done my own research, reading scientific literature about memory, which confirmed what Ned had written to me about its accuracy. When we retrieve a memory, we also rewrite it. The next time we go to remember it, we don’t retrieve the original memory but the last one we recollected. Each time we remember an event, we embellish it to suit our desires, while remaining genuinely convinced of its truth. Clearly that’s what I had been doing with my old family memories—embellishing them. If you think of a typical family interaction as a simple slice of cake, I had added whipped cream, chocolate sprinkles and cherries to mine."
A food for thought story.
Scarlett Jensen
15 June 2013
Anne Barnes is the primary caretaker for her husband who suffers from Alzheimer's and is forced to watch as the man she loves slowly slips away from her. When her estranged brother who excommunicated himself from the family decades before dies, he leaves Anne his most prized possession, an invention called The Memory Enhancer, and an explicit journal to guide her through the process of familiarizing herself with it. Through the ME Anne has the opportunity to observe happier times with her husband and what she remembers to be an idyllic childhood. When she sees her cherished childhood memories play out as they actually transpired, it unearths family secrets that she and her siblings have tried to keep buried throughout their lives. Her brother has entrusted her to figure out the most ethical use for his brilliant invention, but instead she's losing herself in the past to escape the present. Bittersweet Promises is a captivating read with an imaginative and completely original premise. I highly recommend reading it.
Bittersweet Memories ISBN 9781933826523, PMI Books a novel by Lynn Osterkamp.
Plot The protagonist, Anna’s family has strong roots in Helena, Montana where her grandfather, Edmund Weller, found gold in 1883 and began the family that became ranchers, lawyers and politicians. Her father started Weller & Associates in 1940 which she joined in 1966 after graduating from law school followed by her brother Dan in 1970. She went on to become a judge and now is 73-year-old judge retiree caring for her husband Jerry who is quite frail and in advanced stages of Alzheimer’s. She has just lost her dearest friend Martha with whom she has been inseparable except for the years they were at different colleges. They had returned, married their hometown boyfriends and began their adult lives, much of which were the mundane activities associated with life of marriage and professional activity – Martha’s family were in banking. Along with their constant relationship, Anna’s children, their spouses and their children, and brother Dan constantly remained in close contact. Unfortunately her sister Sandra became a Nun and would not even speak with her and another brother Ned had gone to the west coast, became a neuroscience professor and also completely lost contact with the family. The loss of these siblings, how and why it occurred and the reactions of family members at the time as well as of a much later period are presented in some detail from their point of view as well as that of Anna who always has indulged in positive, although as we learn, often not quite correct memories. The story culminates in a quite thorough family discussion of the surprisingly positive result of Ned’s extensive use of his training, of Sandra’s ultimate reaction and Anna’s final acceptance of the fact that every family may not be able to attain the beautiful family existence as she remembers pictured on TV for the Walton’s or similarly portrayed groups.
Discussion The author has set forth a tale that, although somewhat depressing, many readers will find quite enchanting. Her characters belong to a closely knit family but are interestingly portrayed as being quite diverse in their attitudes, actions and reactions and neuroscientist Ned’s device, along with all accompanying details and discussion, presents an intriguing basis upon which to build the tale. Regrettably, knowledgeable hunters and mystery devotees will be disturbed by the number of unanswered questions that arise from this basic element of the story.
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