Memory Makers Gifts

I can be upgraded, can you?

'Dad, how long before the warm glow of nostalgia makes this a good ole days memory?'

"I'm not losing my memory. I'm living in the now."

'And here's one of us 20 seconds ago!'

BABY BOOK VOLUME XIV

'Alzheimers Society Raffle' "You won't forget to make the draw will you?"

Origins of a family tradition.

And that's the first pound I ever borrowed.

'Harvey and I have been together for forty years. Through thin and thick.'

'Billy, how many times have I told you to get your thumb out of your mouth? Betty, for heaven's sake, brush your hair out of your eyes.' 'An annoying auto-focus camera.'

Grandparents Anonymous

"Going to the beach...together as a family! That's what memories are made of! When we get back from this trip, you'll remember it fondly."

"How is it you only remember the good times?"

"These are the very weapons your mother and I used in our famous duel."

My First Camera

Super Strength, Impervious to Bullets And Explosions

Clever visual metaphor used to personify the abstract concept of thought and memory.

Lady to man taking picture of fish: 'Wiggle him a little and get him to smile.'

'I recognize the face ... I just can't pin down the name.'

"My service animal for Alzheimer's, sonny!"

'Yeah, I don't have trouble remembering my times tables, but I stink at algebra...'

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

"I always thought of my childhood home as being larger."

'Here comes the Papa-razzi again...'

"To think—this meeting, which turned into the perfect day, filled with spontaneous adventures that will become priceless memories, could have been an e-mail."

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

Dad's old fashioned barbeque

"It's just a jogger!" "It's just a car!" "There's nothing out there now!" "I was thinking of the squirrel I saw last week"

"Most people forget they've had amnesia."

"Better to have had ice cream and lost it than never to have had ice cream at all."

"I get it! I get it! Elephants never forget. Now quit bragging about it!"

Mafia Short-Term Memory Clinic. 'Fuhgettaboutit.'

Mission Impossible: The Family Photo

'What do you mean you 'forgot' the camera?!'

The Robotics Department. It says here that these guys completely replace all the cells in their bodies every seven years! Wow! What a slow upgrade cycle! If we don't replace all our parts every six months we become obsolete! It makes you wonder why they're in charge! Yeah, like they expect us to remember thousands of gigabytes of data while they forget their passwords! (Published originally on April 19, 2006)