Memory Molder Mugs

"As your chosen autobiographical ghostwriter, let me state up front that if I want any input from you, I'll ask for it."

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!"

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

'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.

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

Dad's old fashioned barbeque

"Most people forget they've had amnesia."

"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"

"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."

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

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

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

"There's a wonderful book on memory tricks here, but I can't remember what I did with it!"

Origins of a family tradition.

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

"I figure we can blue-screen the kids in later."

'I have the MRI scan of your brain. The right hemisphere is clogged with computer passwords.'

'Don't worry about this meeting. I got everything we need right up here.'

Animal and Human Memory

'Pictures of your family?'

Felix suddenly remembers what the string on his finger is a reminder of.

"Oh dear, how embarrassing!"

"I know - it takes skill to sneak a peek at their tiny tags when you can't remember their names."

'I don't remember ever having a good memory.'

"… and a big shout-out to my hippocampus, without which I wouldn’t be standing here saying words."

"Let's see if I understand: your brain can't be upgraded with additional memory, and to make matters even worse, untold thousands of those brain cells die each day?"

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