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ONE Life, SIX words, What’s Yours?

Posted in Six Word Memoirs, tagged , , , on September 27, 2010| 16 Comments »

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It must be Monday when we start to think in abbreviated and concise sentences.  I have two guest contributors this week and am happy to have them!!

Pressing leaves between waxed paper sheets – Rosemarie

Live each day as a gift. – Gail

Harvest Moon, lunatic’s delight all night –Me

I swear this gets easier each week.  I must channeling my Ernest Hemmingway.  So glad I came across the AARP article and that referenced Smith Magazine where the Six Word Project began.

Additionally for those out there who are honing their writing skills, I have come across another site of interest.  Go to http://www.velvetverbosity.com/ – now this is the big time because you have to write One Hundred word stories/essays. Check it out!!!


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Six Word Memoir Monday – One Life, Six Words, What’s Yours?

Posted in Six Word Memoirs, tagged , , , , , on September 20, 2010| 2 Comments »

I love these guys!  I’m so lucky to have three readers who love the challenge of the Six Word Project and they consistently send me contributions.  I wonder where the other writers are, I know some of them are regular readers.  Reminder to everyone, go check out the real Six Word Memoir Project on Smith Magazine‘s website:  http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/

As the sun lowers in the sky, the temperature drops a bit and it gets dark earlier,  a couple of the memoirs reflect upon the oncoming Autumn.

country road, fall, fall foliage, turning leaves

Autumn is Almost Here

Let Apples Replace Doughnuts, Bagels, Chips – Celtic Lady (Susan H)

Chill in the Air – Feels Fabulous – Gail

... and then I’ve got my buddy lost out West, who clearly needs to come home (read New York City)…

Middle Age: Worse Than I Imagined! – Weez

One day, Two Parties, Too Tired – Me

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Six Word Memoir Monday-Channel Your Ernest Hemmingway

Posted in Friends, Six Word Memoirs, tagged , on September 14, 2010| 3 Comments »

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Each week that I receive someone’s Six Word Memoir, it ‘s such pleasure to publish it.  This week is no exception and you will see that there are new contributors as well as a couple of readers who ARE SO GOOD at this!!

Leaves turning, pumpkin sightings, corn mazes –Celtic Lady

Life is moment to moment, enjoy! – DB

September 11th, still hard to believe – Gail

September 11th, we shall not forget – Me

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Six Word Memoir Monday

Posted in Six Word Memoirs on September 6, 2010| 1 Comment »

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This week’s Six Word Memoirs have taken a decided outlook towards the oncoming season.  For several weeks the summer with its fun activities as well as the heat and its debilitating effects were the subject of many of the submitted memoirs.  Labor Day is the unofficial end of the summer and this week’s contributions to the Six Word Memoir Project are right on season.

Back to school, new plaid skirt – Gail

Fall’s freshness rejuvenates me once again – Susan Celtic Lady

Crisis of faith, must be Monday – Weez

Earl? No rain, No wind-wtf? – Me

So new season, school starts, time to get your brain back in gear and take a couple of minutes to think about your present state of mind, your life in general, your passion for… or your philosophy of ….    AND send me your Six Word Memoir, there’s a bit of writer in all of us.

ONE LIFE, SIX WORDS, WHAT’S YOURS?



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Six Word Memoir Monday

Posted in Friends, Ha-P 2 B in OG, Six Word Memoirs, tagged , , , , on August 30, 2010| 7 Comments »

Here we are again at the beginning of another week except this time, it’s really the last week of the summer.  I just never got out of the school calendar mentality because I HATE to see summer end.

Clutching  tightly sands of summer days! – Lori

However, not all of us feel the same as evidenced by this contribution to the Six Word Memoir Project:

Boiling summer finally over? Enough already! – Gail

And one from a Fab Foto Friday fan:

Keep the photos coming – they’re great! – Susan H-aka  Celtic Lady

What are you last or lasting thoughts of this summer? Can you distill them into just Six Words, no more, no less.  It’s a challenge but not as hard as you might have thought.

end of the summer, sand chair, shore, beach days, beach chair

Endless Summer

I LOVE to post your contributions!!!!


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ONE LIFE, SIX WORDS, WHAT’S YOURS?

Posted in Six Word Memoirs, tagged , , , , , , on August 23, 2010| 3 Comments »

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SIX WORD MEMOIR MONDAY

And the responses keep coming in!!!   This is so cool and I KNOW I have a few more followers out there who are writers and YET….

Stuck in Vegas, like Gilligan’s Island – Weez

RELAX – Everything happens for a reason – Kevin

Buying a swimsuit, shoot me now – Gail

New man-enjoying the ride together – Susan H.

These contributions are terrific.  If you’re just tuning in – The Six Word Memoir Project was created by the editor of Smith Magazine. Everyone has a story to tell and if you channel the Hemmingway in yourself, you will be able to share a Six Word Memoir with us all.  It can be a summation of life, a fleeting feeling,   a day in the life of, a passion, a problem – whatever!  Please send it to me here at the blog or at pbenjaytoo@gmail.com

Have Finny, bite, squeeze, hug, kiss.

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Monday Morning Musings on MAD MEN

Posted in Six Word Memoirs, tagged , on August 17, 2010| Leave a Comment »

YOU ARE NOT A GOOD PERSON

My goodness, is that all she could muster up??  We know Don for who he is ; and true to  the tried and true corollary that women love bad boys, he is the best looking bad boy on the small screen these days.  It’s just so obvious – he’s an open book;  He drinks publicly,  screws around publicly, he bullies his team, begrudgingly offers feeble praise once in a while,  drinks like  a fish and smokes like a chimney.  Don is arrogant-perhaps that’s part of the carefully constructed facade that he hides his true self-doubting, self-conflicted  persona.  After all, can you imagine leading a life that is entirely constructed on a lie and a deception and locking it all up inside, drowning the truth in alcohol and smothering his past with Lucky Strikes?

And yet we lust after him – why? He certainly isn’t the kind of man we’d  want to marry, or have our daughter marry! Yet seductive, handsome,  and reeking  with animal magnetism.  He’s not funny, almost humorless, and seems to have no interests beyond getting laid and getting accounts – in that order.  And yet…

MAD MEN, Don Draper, Sterling cooper, draper, Jon Hamn, Lucky Strikes

"right, no sports heros!"

Overall the episode was all about Peggy.  She is rapidly becoming one of the guys – note her lying down on the couch in her office.  Hey the guys do it all the time.  She meets some new friends, gets hit on by a lesbian and declares she has a boyfriend who is presently renting it (her vagina). Peggy ran through a gamut of emotions last night;  she is affronted by the news that Pete is going to be a father and in Peggy character true to form, she pulled herself up and offered sincere congratulations to her former lover.  She is excited by the daring of her new buds;  rule-breaking, left wing liberal artsy fartsy crowd.  How poignant was it when as she departs for lunch with the new friends and Pete greets the stodgy big wigs of Vicks, they exchange a long and meaningful glance? The answer  – VERY! Was that scene all about their unresolved sexual tension and bewilderment as how to handle it (both are clueless) OR was it as my friend Gail says – a contrast in the changing course of the business with the young and the reckless and the old guard?

Tune in next week, it’s sure to heat up and get better!!

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Six Word Memoir Monday-One Life, Six Words, What’s Yours?

Posted in Friends, Six Word Memoirs, tagged , , , on August 16, 2010| 6 Comments »

Once again I’m really happy that a few more reader-contributed Six Word Memoirs were sent in! Oh this makes my Mondays much easier and your reading much more interesting.

This week’s contributions are:

Everyone is So Talented-Cool Contributors – submitted by Gail

Off Beach, In Shower, On Porch – submitted by Trish

If it weren’t hot, I’d paint – submitted by Jane

Isn’t it great that we’re getting in touch with our inner Ernest Hemingway?  I’m just fascinated by this concept and the more Six Word Memoirs I read, the clearer it becomes and actually easier.  At first I was bogged down by the question as it is posed; One Life, Six Words, What’s Yours? But then I realized (with a little help from reading The Smith magazine) that your Six Word Memoir could be philosophical, funny, timely, incidental or just a fleeting feeling of the day-which brings me to this very day;

Endless Summer Sounds Good to Me!– submitted by ME

One Life, Six Words, What’s Yours?



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Six Word Memoir Monday-One LIFE,SIX WORDS, WHAT’S YOURS?

Posted in Six Word Memoirs on August 9, 2010| 2 Comments »

This is the BEST Six Word Memoir Monday EVER!!! I’ve got a free pass – many of you have sent in YOUR own Six Word Memoirs and I am so pleased to present them to you.

Sick, Scared, Unstable, Ocean, Renewal, Peace – Susan

Tired of Working, Bring on Retirement – Susan H.

Too Many Clothes, Too Little Time – Helen

New Job – Too Tired to Write – Weez

Peace in our time? Let’s Hope! –Gail

Off beach, in Shower, on Porch – Trish

Aren’t these great? Thank you, THANK you, Thank YOU! –Me

The Six-Word Memoir project was the first in a series of several “Six-Word” reader driven projects on the SMITH Magazine website. Six-Word Memoirs are simple stories told in six words (no more, no less) that describe anything from the mundane details of someone’s childhood to the most private events in a romantic relationship. For example, Six-Word Memoirs book series editors Larry Smith (editor) and Rachel Fershleiser’s six-word memoirs are, respectively, “Big hair, big heart, big hurry” and “Bespectacled, besneakered, read and ran around.”

Once asked to write a full story in six words, legend has it that novelist Ernest Hemingway responded: “For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.”


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MAD MEN – Don Draper in Six Words

Posted in BY THE WAY, Six Word Memoirs, tagged , , , , , , on August 2, 2010| 4 Comments »

I think Monday’s Six Word blog is going to have to share space with….MAD MEN. Soapy as it is, lines and characters predictable – I love it.  And to think I almost forgot to take charge of the remote in time to see it – we all know Peter was well on his way to watching CONFESSION on TMC!

Monday Morning Recap

It was painful to watch Roger succumb to the demands of a haughty, self-aggrandizing client and put on the Santa suit.  Oh those of us whose income depends on pleasing on a client rather than the use of our own intellect and talent… Hey isn’t that all supposed to go together??

And then there’s Don – so true to form!  We can count on him to get drunk and screw some skirt that happens to pass by in his visual field,  impaired as it must be considering his state of inebriation.   Props go to the nurse who so outrageously flirted with Don, but scooted away safely when she realized there was nothing to be gained there.  Too bad Allison, Don’s secretary  couldn’t think past the drunken attention she was receiving from her boss!! She presented an unflattering depiction of an attention-starved woman, an over-giver and worst of all, a pathetic embodiment of a naive, although I think she should have known better woman who believes that if a man fucks you, then he must really like you!  Too bad Carole King and Gerry Geffen’s hit,  Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? hadn’t been written and recorded yet!!! AND  what’s really telling about that song (all women take heed) is that Gerry wrote the lyrics!!!!!!!

Talk about PAIN – poor Allison felt like a $100  hooker the next morning and Don… well, and we thought  Betty was made of ice lol lol.  The laugh’s on us – he was one cold bastard the morning after the night before!!!  I wrote six words describing despicable Don:  womanizer, unfeeling, cold, angry, drunk, selfish. Pretty harsh I know and I like him – although truth be told I think my feelings have more to do with his looks than anything else – oh yes I know how shallow that makes me.

MAD MEN, Don Draper, New York City, ad men, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?

And he looks so charming too, Who knew?

However, one possible explanation for Don’s dismissive attitude towards Allison in the office was that he had a blackout! Oh how redeeming that would be as well as damning because who needs an alcoholic who blacks out in their life???

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