It is the ultimate midlife paradox: we can flawlessly rap every word of a 90s hip-hop track, but we can't remember why we just walked into the kitchen. Here is a look at the deeply frustrating, entirely relatable reality of brain fog, and why our short-term memory is currently out of office.

Ever walk into a room and immediately forget why you are there? Or look at a spoon and call it a 'soup shovel'? You aren't broken. You are just experiencing an 'Executive Function Malfunction.' This week, we are reframing the brain fog: your internal hard drive isn't failing, it is just fully loaded with years of wisdom, schedules, and everyone else's stuff.