Wrong-Way Grekin

Hillel Day School librarian Linda Grekin
gets lost all the time. She even wrote a book about it.

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ing their destination. She also pro-
vides hints on how to compensate
for a poor sense of direction.
At 2 p.m. Saturday, March 27 — if
inda Grekin calls herself
she can find her way to the store —
directionally challenged. And
Grekin will sign books at Borders
with good reason.
Books in Farmington Hills.
She has been lost on
"When I was
young, it never
occurred to me that
there were people
who saw the world
as a map, navigated
cities without trou-
ble, knew which
way to turn when
they walked out of
))
a hotel room,
Grekin says in her
book. "But as I
grew older, I real-
ized there were peo-
ple who had some-
thing that was not
my birthright — a
sense of direction."
Grekin says the
idea to write a book
about being direc-
tionally impaired
came from her hus-
band, Roger, a
Detroit native and
Linda Grekin has a sense of humor about her lack of a sense
physician specializ-
of direction.
ing in endocrinolo-
gy at the University
of
Michigan.
fast-moving freeways, in
"We were talking
parking structures, in
about what I could and
hotels while on vacation,
could not do, and my
and even in her own Ann
poor sense of direction
Arbor neighborhood,
came up," recalls Grekin.
where having difficulty
"Roger posed this ques-
finding her way home has
tion to me: 'You are sit-
been a common occur- •
ting in your kitchen;
rence.
what room is above you?'
But Grekin, a librarian
Guith•
"We have been in the
at Hillel Day School in
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same house for 24 years,
Farmington Hills, decided
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and I didn't have a clue.
to put her embarrassment
Roger said, 'There have to
aside and get to the bottom
be other people like you;
of why she gets lost. In her
you
ought
to
write a book.' So I did."
book, I'll Never Get Lost Again: The
In trying to determine just how
Complete Guide to Improving Your
widespread the problem is, Grekin
Sense of Direction (RDR Books;
surveyed her friends, colleagues,
$12.95), she explores why some of
neighbors and even some celebrities.
us become easily disoriented, while
She
found numerous people —
others have no trouble at all reach-

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