Memorization Pillows

"Wow! The Ukraine, Moldavia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Byelorussia, Tadzhikistan, Kirgizia, Turkmenistan..."

My First Camera

"He was a very good boy."

'Dewey! Grandpa's stuck again. Give him a couple of whacks upside the head.'

"10th Anniversary Woodstock Reunion'

Michael Jackson

'Forget what?'

"I take it you got the lead in the school play."

'In memory of our beloved Skippy.'

'That's a picture of my granddad with shoulder length hair and a beard. That's why mom calls these albums hair looms.'

"I honored her every request except for the last one: 'Harold, please stop making a scene'."

I painted them all from memory.

'One really nice thing up here is that it's always very easy to get an audience with a Pope.'

"Don’t you think it’s about time you stopped insisting on your uncle Bill being here for Christmas?"

"We laughed. We cried. But mostly we watched TV."

Monument in the park for Squirrel Feeder

'Here we go again...'

'Admit it, you've been laughing behind my back ever since 1957 when we went in that hall of mirrors in Skegness!'

"Good old Frank. He was always thinking of others."

'Ol' Pete was an angler to the end.'

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'Lost Diary'

'He never listened to his mother!'

Heavenly Gazette This Heavenly Gazette is awfully thin. There doesn't seem to be a financial section Because you can't take it with you. There's no weather forecast. It's perfect every day. I don't see any sports scores. Everybody's a winner up here. And there are no political reports. Of course not in paradise we don't hear anything about politics!

A man in a little rowboat goes to his grave.

'There's a little bit of my late husband in every glass - I used his ashes as a fining agent.'

Origins of a family tradition.

"Hi Mom...do you remember in which grade I was given an award for my excellent performance of the song about little ducks?"

Animal and Human Memory

Mike had learnt by heart the whole training manual, apart from the most important bit.

Crafty Beer: "I'm making a scrapbook of when you were still fermenting."

You are not forgotten!

If Other Nations Mourned Like the U.S.

'More pictures of your kids. Wow, they've really grown since yesterday.'

"It's the dog."