Six Word Memoir
My friend Alex Fayle, who writes the Someday Syndrome blog, tagged me with the following challenge:
- Write a six-word memoir.
- Post it to your blog including a visual illustration if you would like.
- Link to the person who tagged you in your post and to this original post if possible so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere.
- Tag 5 more blogs with links.
- Don’t forget to leave a comment in the tagged blogs with an invitation to play.
Alex said that he tagged me because I’m "so efficient" that I could easily achieve the six-word limit, but I suspect that he knows I can’t resist this type of challenge!
So here goes…
Her mother’s daughter; her own woman.
I’m tagging:
- Kathy Stinson, because she’s a writer, so she can do this if anyone can
- Tony at PinkQuack, so he knows I haven’t forgotten about him
- Jacki Hollywood Brown of Adventures in Organizing, because she’s usually up for a challenge too – and she can do it in both official languages
- Erika Martlew at Northern Connections and Crystal Stango at The Filing Cabinet, just because
If anyone else would like to play along, please leave a comment so we can see what you’ve written.
You might even want to submit your six-word memoir to SMITH Magazine to be considered for publication in an upcoming book. (Their first volume, Not Quite What I was Planning: Six Word Memoirs from Writers Famous and Obscure came out earlier this year.)
Hi Janet,
Thanks for the challenge. I’m SO not a writer…I’ll work on it!
Comment by Jacki Hollywood Brown — July 2, 2008 @ 11:47 am
Awesome story Janet! It’s so beautiful and it fits really well with the picture.
Thanks for playing along!
Alex
Comment by Alex Fayle — July 2, 2008 @ 12:17 pm
Lovely contribution to the memoir meme, thanks so much for playing:)
Comment by bookbabie — July 2, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
I may be “the writer” in the family, but only officially. Janet, this is brilliant!
Comment by Kathy Stinson — July 2, 2008 @ 9:01 pm
I work for SMITH, and I’ve been keeping an eye on this meme for the past few months. I just wanted to let you know how much I love yours, and to encourage you to submit it to the site. It gives us a glimpse of an entire relationship - and an entire life - in a simple, beautiful way. Well done!
Comment by Elizabeth — July 7, 2008 @ 2:47 am
Thanks for thinking of me, Janet. I’d be willing to give it a try—IF—I knew where to begin with the process of posting (using the links required). How difficult is this to post?
Comment by Crystal — July 7, 2008 @ 7:17 pm