so this friend tells me that the only habit he maintains is to clear his history every day on the search engine.  And we’ve got more important things to talk about so I skip over that.  And then I wake up in the middle of the night with that sentence, “clear history.”  All my life I’ve been trying to document history, to learn from history, maybe even to change history, but clear history? Nah.  I just finished an article on the way the little bit of history of my family and friends in the Holocaust keeps changing, that even my mother changed her official testimony about her sister’s fate when she discovered my uncle had abandoned her when the Nazis caught her on a mission in the forests.  She wiped out her sister’s married name from the records.  Both the original and the doctored versions are fascinating to me. 

So I looked at my google history – and I thought, if ever anyone is interested in how my mind works, it will be an amazing document.  But if you follow these pages you’ve got enough to do.