I have six words for you!

     Yesterday a friend of mine shared this really cool thing with me that his wife had heard on NPR. It's called the 6-Word Memoir. Basically the concept is summing up your life in six words. Talk about economy of words! They sort of remind me of epitaphs or Haiku.
     They actually have published (February 8th of this year) a book called (with no irony that it’s title is six words) Not Quite What I was Planning. Subtitled: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure.
     Anyhoot, I just love it! I have actually signed up with a profile on the site. They have other cool writing projects in which you can participate, but I think the best part of this site is that it motivates you to write!
     My personal ones so far:


AND,
Searching for answers to unknown questions.

     My favorite ones on the site:
Trying to mother the entire world.

Day and night, like a zebra.

     Link to the site:
http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/
     Link for NPR article:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/2008/01/whats_your_sixword_memoir.html or http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18768430