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Six Words One Life What’s Yours?

Posted in Six Word Memoirs, tagged , , , on November 9, 2010| 1 Comment »

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Sorry that this is a day late, probably a dollar short too! Oh wait, that’s for the other blog-the Obscure Origins of Common Phrases, wrong day, wrong blog lol lol.  Well fact of the matter is, I am a day late, and I’m getting later for  Tasty Tidbits Tuesday too.   So here goes:

No school for me this week – startingoveringermany

Vacation went too fast, I’m back! – Susan Celtic Lady

Time to break out the gloves! – Gail

Busy as a bee, that’s ME! – Me

I hope more of you will attempt this little challenge, it just makes it more interesting for all of us.  BUT to help you, inspire you, entertain you and to make this blog a little bit longer, I have a surprise treat: Here are some Six Word Memoirs By Writers Famous and Obscure excerpted from the book, Not Quite What I Was Planning.

After Harvard, had baby with crackhead – Robin Templeton

Watching quietly from every door frame – Nicole Resseguie

Savior complex makes for many disappointments – Alanna Schubach

Catholic school backfired. Sin is in. – Nikki Beland

There you have some interesting succinct (that’s what it’s all about) memoirs to ponder a bit and come up with your own.




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Monday’s Six Word Memoirs

Posted in Six Word Memoirs, tagged , , , on November 1, 2010| 10 Comments »

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I just got home from Boston and in time (late though it may be) to post some Six Word Memoirs that I received this week.  As the weeks roll by, I find it interesting to read my own memoirs and those of my readers and note how as our lives take various twists and turns, some good, some not so good, our six words often reflect that fleeting moment or life-long desire.

My week in Boston was spent alternating between cuddling a newborn sweetie and coddling my granddaughter, Finley who is suffering ever so slightly from the many rapid changes in her life (Daddy working in NYC, Mommy nursing a newborn, going to nursery school) and I think she may have a small case of the terrible twos. So although I usually put my own Six Word Memoir last, this week it’s first.

“I want my  Mommy” said Finley – Me

I am baking 3 rum cakes – startingoveringermany

Job abandonment – Not a horrible idea – Weez

Can it almost be Thanksgiving? Yikes! – Gail

If you read this blog, you don’t need me to go into yet another explanation of the origin of The Six Word Project, so I won’t.  Recently, one friend/reader said she tried to do the Six Word Memoir but she can’t.  I can only encourage you to try – put the pen to the paper and think…about your life, your dreams. your present day situation, a bad or good feeling and the six words will write themselves!

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