My Six Word Memoir
Lovely Rosie has tagged me for a meme she nicked from Miss Corey.
It all started over at Smith Magazine, and the copy and paste history is thus:
Legend has it that Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response? “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Last year, SMITH Magazine re-ignited the recountre by asking our readers for their own six-word memoirs. They sent in short life stories in droves, from the bittersweet (“Cursed with cancer, blessed with friends”) and poignant (“I still make coffee for two”) to the inspirational (“Business school? Bah! Pop music? Hurrah”) and hilarious (“I like big butts, can’t lie”).
The rules of the meme are:
- Write your own six word memoir.
- Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you’d like.
- Link to the person that tagged you in your post, and to the original post if possible so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere.
- Tag at least five more blogs with links.
- Don’t forget to leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play.
- Have fun!
This was actually really hard as it could have all gotten a bit depressing.
So, here are a few I decided against:
1. Too thin, too fat, gave up.
2. Would have liked a bit more…
3. Scared of spiders but not trifle.
And the obvious,
4. A bit upset because I’m dead.
5. I would much rather be alive.
But in the end I went for this, and added some little cartoons to illustrate it.
And I will tag…
Akelamalu Everything and Nothing
Holly’s Never Everland
Kimberly Temporary Insanity
Kitten’s Homeschool
Belle Diary of a Housewife
Go on, tell me your memoir. (I read that as epitaph, but memoir sounds more cheerful.)
I love Spike Milligan’s “I told you I was ill.”
And todays do-able Green tip is ‘get up off your chair now and turn off any lights, TV’s, etc that are not being used. I just managed 3 lights and a CD player.
Oh, and check your taps too.
Every little bit helps right?
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I will try this challenge. Thanks for thinking of me. I will try and have it tomorrow, since I have already wrote one post today.
I have a little something on my blog for all my lovely blogging buddies.
It was fun, eh? Mine was a glimpse into my bi-polar-ness though…
*lol*
Love it! And, your pictures are adorable!
I enjoyed your multiple responses to the Six Word Memoir … especially the ‘illustrated’ one. I’ve been collecting possibilities in ‘draft’ for a while … hoping to come up with ‘the perfect’ one for me … but perhaps I should publish them all and be done with it? LOL
Hugs and blessings,
my six word resposne:
i can’t believe i was tagged.
or
it’s okay i will do it.
or
what a lovely job you did.
or
i always love reading your blog.
oh now i’m stuck in sixwordland <—concatenating the words makes this a cinch!!!!
YESSS!!! copyright, people, copyright!!!!
Even the ones you discarded were good Jo!
I’ll do it sometime this week, when I’ve had a think!
Kitten thanks, and your blogging gift is adorable.
Maria, now I have to go peep at yours. I bet it’s cool.
Momo, thanks my lovely.
Storyteller go for it. You could always get your readers to vote for their favourite.
And thanks.
Aklela, I can’t wait to read yours.
Beaufoix!You have spent far too long doing this meme (which I did not NICK from Corey, I VOLUNTEERED)!! And it’s a memoir not an epitaph, like the memoirs of Katie Price who is still very much alive and which I know you are currently reading!
PS. I’m changing my memior (not epitaph) to:
My child has driven me insane!
Hee hee…fun one, Jo. Sure lets that lovely wit of yours shine through. I may well attempt it!
Rosie, I didn’t spend too long doing it at all young lady, I had fun. And you did nick it from Corey. I saw it in your bag. You may think that balaclava hid your identity but I knew it was you missy. And I take it you’re hinting that you want me to return your Jordan Book. I know you get a bit antsy if your collection is not complete, but you did insist I read it and I was only trying to humour you. Tsk. Some people.
And oi, pedantry. Epitaph smepitaph. Rasssssp.
Kim, I hope you do my sweet. I can’t wait to see.
I like memoir better than epitaph, too! Believe it or not we also toyed with “I told you I was sick” for our Aunt Edith…she was such a fragile little thing, I loved her greatly, but she was a complainer…I loved yours, good job on that!
Sandi
I love the cartoons. I think Spike Milligan also said: “I demand a second opinion!”
oh you nailed it JO! nailed it good! love it. love your cartoons as well. you rock!!!
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