Memorizing Gifts

'I have a good memory for most things - it's only facts that throw me.'

"You have the memory of an elephant!"

My First Camera

"I'm going to talk about the summer before last, it was much more fun."

"He was a very good boy."

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

"10th Anniversary Woodstock Reunion'

"I remember that game of Spin-the-Bottle like it was yesterday. It was love at firstspin."

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

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

'In memory of our beloved Skippy.'

Remember my mum? I took that photo a week before she died. There's one of me...that was a good haircut.

'Forget what?'

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

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

"See those birch trees on the other side of the pond? That’s the exact spot where your mother first called me an idiot."

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

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

'Where Are They Now?'

'You're always living in the past.'

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

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

'My old Nehru suit! And in a pocket there's still a bottle of aftershave lotion from the glove box of my '55 Nash Rambler.'

'Here we go again...'

Origins of a family tradition.

'He never listened to his mother!'

A man in a little rowboat goes to his grave.

'I was in the right place at the right time once, and then I realized it wasn't ME.'

'Is that all you can do Just sitting there watching your old movies'

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

'Lost Diary'

Animal and Human Memory