The Yellow Paint Chip: Tales from Someone Who Paid Attention

In 1973 I saw the Federico Fellini film Amarcord and it was the most amazing thing I had ever seen up till then. It had so many wonderful characters and they were all so immersed in life, love, and adventure that it made me long for such experiences in my own life. Now these many years later I realized that I had experienced all those things myself and it only took a yellow paint chip to open that door to my past and all the memories came flooding back.

It wasn't until many years later that...