Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Your 6-Word Memoir



Since this is the first week of the New Year and many of us are looking back on the previous year, I thought it'd be fun to repeat a Feb., 2010 blog:

Last Thursday I was driving to the post office and listening to NPR. The host was interviewing the authors of a book on 6-word memoirs.

The authors said that allegedly Hemingway was challenged in a bar (where else?) to come up with a 6-word memoir. He responded, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." That's profound, but then again, he was a writer. Less daunting were funny ones from Stephen Colbert and Dave Barry.

The NPR host invited listeners to phone in their 6-word memoir. It was wonderful. Memoirs were serious, funny or poignant. Since I was driving, the only one I can remember to quote is: "Bachelor party, You-Tube video, Wedding canceled."

Now, since this blog is titled Ruminations on Art and Life, I invite you to make up your own 6-word memoir.

6 comments:

  1. Here's my 6-word memoir:

    Ate. Watched TV. Gained weight. Why?

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  2. Loved, lost, loved, lost, loved anyway.

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  3. Longer than you can possibly imagine.

    spop

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  4. Daughter. Sister. Wife. Mother. Finally ME sz

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  5. Growing older, getting slower, almost there FAB

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