Nostalgic Narrative Explorer Mugs

"In the old times, we had to wait a wee to see the pictures printed on paper. Now it only takes a second to see how ridiculous I look wearing the shirt that your grandma bought for me."

"Don't be embarrassed. Most heroic archetypes your age have lost the ability to swashbuckle."

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

"I don't care about the rating on Goodreads. We're reading Cinderella!"

"Max! Oh, my God! There's like a billion moving ideas in there!"

That midnight hour when fleeting memories come home to roost.

"Hipsters"

It was my story. A murder mystery. A who-done-it-and-got-away-with-it-until-he-wrote-about-it.

Those Were The Days

"Clive used to be an astronaut."

'It's worse than we thought: You've got termites.'

'Somehow an electronic fish finder just isn't as exciting as a 'Ben fish finder'.'

Man commiting suicide finds the treasure at the bottom of the sea.

'You see doctor I've been increasingly Forgetful.'

Man writing at laptop says: 'It's a UK road movie ??" to give it more scale, I'm making the characters three inches tall.'

"Old timers are quick to tell me that the drive to Abilene was different in their day."

"Well, Mr. Goddam Fancy-Pants Small-Town-Expose hot shot! What makes you think we don't all have lusty, kiss-and-tell memoirs boiling away inside us?"

"I'm after the history section."

"We've intended to ask you about it for some time, Doctor, but never got around to it."

"I've learned from the past. Now can we move on?"

"It's a narrative I didn't intend."

"The computer's messed up? How time flies! Seems only yesterday you couldn't program the VCR!"

"It's a coming-of-middle-age story."

A bit of Newlyn.

Youth Hostel, Elder Hostel

"And Jasper, dear Jasper, with his soulful eyes and great sagging jowl, would be stretched upon the floor, his tail a-thump when he heard his master's footsteps." Penny loved Daphne Du Maurier's 'Rebecca'.

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

"That's Eleanor. She's a fact checker."

'...makes a change from the zimmer frames!'

An Appreciation

'Humph! When I was your age, I had to do my homework in front of a black and white.'

Beachcomber sees that smartphone displays 'message in a bottle.'

Reading room