SCIENCE SAYS THE ABILITY TO navigate was developed to enable early humans who stumbled on a bountiful berry bush or well-stocked watering hole to find their way back to it. If so, I would have been top man in my pack, at least when it came to locating a meal that wasn’t moving too much.
Some people are blessed with perfect pitch; I have a perfect sense of direction. I can find my way anywhere and back home again. I’ve never lost my car in a parking lot, never taken an uptown train when I wanted to go downtown, never followed directions to a party in some unfamiliar neighborhood and missed a turn or an exit ramp.
Despite