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Six Word Memoir Monday!!

Posted in Six Word Memoirs, tagged , , , , , , , on February 21, 2011| 3 Comments »

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The day is quickly slipping away – Me 

My days/life so often feel like they’re quickly slipping away that I decided I should begin this blog with my own Six Word Memoir.

And from some faithful readers:

Bought ski pass -now love snow! – Anonymous

A birthday again I am blessed – Rachel

Snow, snow, melt, sleet, more snow – Susan in the Grove

And from the “book”…

Soul’d out so I could prophet – Gotham Chopra

Strange name. Transparent shame. Instant fame – Bumble Ward

In the office. It smells here. –Meera Parthasarathy

I am trying in every regard – Lionel Shriver

Birth, Childhood, Adolescence, Adolescence, Adolescence, Adolescence… – Jim Gladstone

Happiest when ignoring huge financial debt – Ayanna Bryan

Looking forward to hearing from a few more readers next week.



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Six Words, No More, No Less – 6

Posted in Six Word Memoirs, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 14, 2011| 1 Comment »

Those of us in the Northeast are still in throes of winter, regardless that a lot of it has melted.  I know we can expect more snow, only hope it is a snow fall and not a storm or blizzard.  Looking forward to the last snow of the season because I think I’m going to sprinkle grass seed all over the top and let it melt right down to the ground; I might have a greener spring! Ah but I digress…the reason I mentioned the snow was due to the fact that our Six Word Memoirs still speak to the long and bleak and snowy season we are in.

Shoveling driveway, sidewalk and now roof!  – Susan Celtic Lady

Goodbye paycheck, hello insomnia and headaches – Weez

My tan marks have all gone – Susan in the Grove

Day 1, Diet # 199, trying again – Me

And now from the book,  Not Quite What I Was Planning – Six Word Memoirs by Writers, FAMOUS & OBSCURE:

Recent doctorate means overeducated and underemployed -Philip Sternberg

Taking a lifetime to grow up – Mirona Iliescu

Living for Jesus because earth sucks – Johnny Johnson

Bad breaks discovered at high speed – Paul Schultz

Dancing in fields of infinite possibilities – Deepak Chopra

Six word memoir, guru

Deepak Chopra




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One Life, Six Words, What’s Yours?

Posted in Six Word Memoirs, tagged , , , , , , , , , on February 7, 2011| 3 Comments »

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Well, by now you know the drill…if it’s Monday it must be Six Word Memoir day. And as always each week, I look to my readers to send me their own Six Word Memoir. Some weeks are bountiful and lately they’ve been scarce AND I certainly appreciate each one I receive and marvel at how clever you all are at distilling your life into just six words, not more, not less.

A special long distance thank-you to my buddy out west for his always witty and thoughtful and thought-provoking Six Word Memoirs.

Another letdown. Betrayed by former co-workers – Weez

Age has yet to eliminate  neuroses! – Me

Creative cells are fading and frozen – Susan in the Grove

I am full of it =Love! – Karen

And from the book, NOT QUITE WHAT I WAS PLANNING SIX WORD MEMOIRS by Writers FAMOUS & OBSCURE:

Middle of seven made me me – Susan Sinott

The woman formerly known as Marissa – Mimi Ghez

Followed yellow brick road, disappointment ensued – Kelsey Ochs

Nerdy girl smutmonger. Now baby fever – Rachel Kramer Bussel

Born free but lost my country – Ted O’Brien



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Monday Is A Six Letter Word!!!

Posted in Six Word Memoirs, tagged , , , , , , , on January 31, 2011| 5 Comments »

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Every couple of weeks I remind everybody about the origins of  the Six Word Memoir and/or the Six Word Project.  Last week I printed an excerpt from the Smith Magazine website and surprise of surprises, I got a comment from LARRY SMITH himself!!! I am so excited that he noticed the blog and our own little Six Word Memoirs.

Please read his comment on last week’s Monday blog; he invites all of us to visit the site and leave a Six Word Memoir. Let’s do it!!!

Here are the contributions from some of my most faithful readers – love you guys!!

Snowing again,when will it stop? – Susan Celtic Lady

New York is the Frozen Apple – Gail

White, white…nothing here has color! – Susan

New York City here I come? – Weez

Snow, sleet, rain, my brain drains – Me

Sorry for you readers in California and Texas, I know it must seem like we have a one track mind here in the Northeast.  It’s not us who has it, it’s Mother Nature.  Snow is the only thing on her mind lately.

And from the book, Not Quite What I Was Planning, Six-Word Memoirs by writers Famous and Obscure.

I did ask to live backwards – Helen Gynn

Forest peace, sharing vision, always optimistic – Dr. Jane Goodall

Bespectacled, besneakered, read and ran around – Rachel Fershleiser

Supported the sublime with uncurbed enthusiasm – Jeff Newelt

Followed white rabbit, became black sheep – Gabrielle Maconi


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One Life – Six Words – What’s Your’s

Posted in Six Word Memoirs, tagged , , , , , , , on January 24, 2011| 7 Comments »

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Well that sums up the Six Word Memoir challenge! It’s your life, can you share it or at least part of it with us and do it in JUST six words?

For those of you who may not be familiar with this Six Word Memoir, let me give you the story from the ORIGINATORS. This has been taken from the Smith Magazine web site:

“…We quickly popped in a new idea we had been kicking around: giving Hemingway‘s legendary six-word novel (“For sale: baby shoes, never worn”) a personal twist. We combined the classic storytelling challenge with our passion for nonfiction confessionals and dubbed it “Six-Word Memoirs.” Then we called up some guys we met at a tech conference about this new thing called Twitter and asked if they wanted to partner up to send one daily short life story to anyone who followed our @smithmag feed.   Four years and more than 200,000 Six-Word Memoirs later, we continue to be blown away by what people are capable of saying in just six words, the ways that others have adapted the form, and — not to get all Chicken Soup-y here — the unexpected little gems and gifts that launching this project has brought into our lives.   In classrooms from kindergarten to graduate school, educators have found the Six-Word Memoir an inspiring writing lesson. From a third-grade classroom in New Jersey, we heard “Life is better in soft pajamas” and one student’s precocious Zen observation: “Tried surfing on a calm day.” In Charleston, South Carolina, a creative writing teacher named Junius Wright makes a series of Six-Word Memoir videos with his students each year.

So now that we are all up to speed on the how to and why for, let’s do it!!!!

Sending good health, karma to Peter – Gail

Dangerously close to the moment of truth – Weez

Can 17 days change my life? – Me

And from the “book”:

My family is overflowing with therapists – Shaina Feinberg

Boy! If I had a hammer! – Tim Barkow

We still don’t hear a single – Adam Schlesinger

Canada freezing. Gotham beckons. Hello Si! – Graydon Carter

Years in the closet. Why? Why? – Michael Callahan

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MONDAY Came and Went AND Nobody Cared!

Posted in Six Word Memoirs, tagged , , , , on January 18, 2011| 5 Comments »

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Well and WOW, a first – and not such a good one either!  I didn’t do the Six Word Memoir yesterday and apparently nobody noticed and worse yet, no one cared to leave me their Six Word Memoir to publish this week.  Oh my, what a sad state of affairs.  What to do? What to do?

When the going gets tough, the tough get going and all that jazz, so I guess I’m on my own this week.  Well just me and the “good book”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adult kids – Can’t stop being Mommy -Me

And from the amazing book Not Quite What I Was Planning/Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure:

Oldest of five. Four degrees. Broke –Kaitlin Walsh

Made a mess. Cleaned it up. – Amy Anderson

A crush on Susan Sarandon. Unrequited. – Willy Edge

Says deaf boyfriend: You’re too quiet – Anna Jane Grossman

Alive 38 years, feels like 83. –Bryan Lowrey

Listen up all you good readers, I love getting comments, I LOVE getting your Six Word Memoirs so please start sending them in again.  You can leave as a comment here or email to pbenjaytoo@gmail.com

Have a great week!

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MONDAY is a Six Letter Word

Posted in Six Word Memoirs, tagged , , , , , , , on January 11, 2011| Leave a Comment »

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It’s a new year full of resolutions, expectations and I hope a new wave of participation from my readers in the weekly Six Word Memoir challenge.  I’m very pleased to have a few faithful contributors and would welcome many more!!!

Think about your life in general, your dreams, wishes, past mistakes and best achievements.  Can you distill your thoughts into just six words, no more, no less.  Channel your Ernest Hemingway and see what happens.

Very grateful for so many things – Gail

Osterperose -Spread the word-FORTEO works – Heide

Well, let’s hope for the best – Weez

Cancer is not contagious, fear is – Me

And from the “book”:

College was fun, Damn student loans – Randy Boland

Semicolons; I use them to excess – Iris Page

God chose, Said no. Now what? – Adam Blackman

Time heals all wounds, not quite – Jonathan Miles

ONE LIFE – SIX WORDS – WHAT’S YOURS?

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Six Word Memoir Monday – One Day Late

Posted in Six Word Memoirs, tagged , , , , on January 4, 2011| 4 Comments »

New year - which direction?

NEW YEAR - Which Direction?

Not a great way to kick off the New Year of blogging by being one day late with my Monday blog.   Well I guess today is going to be catch-up day, first this blog, then I have to come up with something tasty for Tasty Tidbits Tuesday.   I also have to be available for Verizon to install service in my daughter’s new apartment, put a ginormous bag of photos and stuff in some order, put away some Christmas stuff that has been washed and finish two very belated Christmas gifts – have the Kings come yet?

New Year, new diet, less fat – Susan Celtic Lady

41 and running out of gas – Weez

Soon snow will be a memory – Gail

90 years, putting me to shame – Heide

Time to revise my 50 goals! – Me

And now a few from the book, Not Quite What I Was Planning – Six Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure:

Never should have bought that ring – Paul Bellows

Sold Belongings. Became Itinerant Poetry Librarian – Sara Wingate Gray

Tombstone won’t say “had health insurance” – Dean Haspiel

Stranded by ten-thousand -mile crush – Will Cockrell

Wasted time regretted so life reinvented – Vicky Oppus


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Six Word Memoir Monday

Posted in Six Word Memoirs, tagged , , , , , , on December 27, 2010| 3 Comments »

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Blame it on the snow storm (we’ll be using this excuse for at least another week), that’s why this blog is so late.  I only received  three responses this week (blame it on the holidays) and I am pleased to share them with everyone.

Lucky me, my own Peter Pan – Heide

Happy New Year to the Memoiristas! -Gail

Need a better back up plan – Weez

Christmas at last; warm,cozy memories! – Susan Celtic Lady

It’s the drifts that get you.-Me

I know another holiday is coming up and that means a little more time off sooooo won’t you please put on your Ernest Hemingway caps and with the advent of the New Year, commit to summing up this life we lead in just six words, no more, no less.

Happy New Year!!



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Six Word Memoir Monday – What’s Yours???

Posted in Six Word Memoirs, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on December 20, 2010| 3 Comments »

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With Christmas fast approaching and New Year‘s not far behind, the readers entries to our weekly Six Word Memoir challenge seem to be taking on a tone of the season.  And why not?

When I’m retired, I’ll have time! – Susan Celtic Lady

Oostende, Linz, Saltzburg, Munich; decisions, decisions – Heide

NEW YEAR welcomes four innovative seasons – Karen

My job made me physically ill – Weez

“Oh Holy Night” makes me cry – Me

And to continue sharing excerpts from the book, Not Quite What I Was Planning Six Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure.

Wolf she cried. No one listened – May Lee

All day I dream about sex – GuroTupchileshtoff

I still make coffee for two – Zak Nelson

I like girls. Girls like boys – Andrea Dela Cruz




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