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Monday IS a Six Letter Word

Posted in Six Word Memoirs, tagged , , , , , , , on May 4, 2011| 3 Comments »

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One Life, Six Words, What’s Yours?  The quest continues and the challenge remains – can you? Will you? – try to put your life into just six words, no more, no less!  Well my life, you say, is way too big and complex to distill into six words! Maybe, maybe not.  Some GREAT writers have done and each week I post about 5 Six Word Memoirs from the book, Not Quite What I Was Planning. 

Some weeks we focus on a theme and this week’s was supposed to be about FOOD, our love of, our abstinence from, from taste sensations to tasty tidbits and tasty recipes and of course the throes of dieting. WHATEVER you are thinking or feeling about food is your source of a Six Word Memoir.

This is what I received last week:

A pinch of this and that – Heather

Packing my bags. The adventure continues – Weez

Far away California, grandkids, Jersey coast – Heide

Diet ice cream flavor? Green Tea! – Me

And from the above-referenced book…

I hope to outlive my regrets. – Bob Logan

All night phone calls complete me – Harry Manning

Texas childhood can lead to wisdom – Kristen Ahlemeier-Olfe

Sweet life, good sons – I’m rich –  Roger Waggener

Barrister, barista, what’s the diff, Mom? –Abigail Moorhouse

Ok readers, I’m going to try again and this one is for EVERYONE! Mother’s Day is around the corner, let’s sum up Mom in SIX WORDS!






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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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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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