Wordiness. Or lack thereof.

SMITH magazine and Harper Perennial recently released a book called: Not Quite What I Was Planning--Six Word Memoirs By Writers Famous and Obscure. Media outlets, including The Seattle P-I, picked up on the idea and have solicited their own submissions.

I admit. I tried. I failed.

I wrote one, then several. Because I could not narrow down which part of my life I wanted to focus on, and I couldn't, obviously, fit in everything significant thus far: My family, my husband, my kids, my writing. Though that's close, at eight words.

So, here are a few different twists on the same life. Mine.

He came to me. He stayed.

I submersed myself in many words.

I loved my kids too much.

I loved my kids not enough.

I was easily distracted. Look! There!

Please leave your own six-word memoir in the comments section.

Comments

[slouching mom]

Heh. I like the one about being distracted.

I did this. Mine was:

"Empathy's better as carry-on baggage."

[pam]

I tried, yet he died anyway.

[AndreAnna]

"I did not marry my father"

[Asthmagirl]

The kindest word today and always.

[Stacy]

Sunday night of the single girl in Portland:

He brought flowers. He brought wine.

He also brought me a divine cookie from Petite Provence, but that exceeds six words.

Here's another.

I'm happy and hoping it lasts.

(Are contractions actually two words?)

[anne nahm]

I can tell you I just spent two minutes looking at your left hand ad for "corelle square dinnerware" and thinking the visual was an abstract art of full frontal nude male. I finally realized it was actually two plates, a bowl, and a coffee mug.

I liked it better as man-bits.

[bananas]

Six words? That's brutal for someone who dribbles words like water (sigh).

Hmmm... maybe;

her house wasn't clean but she lived

drat that's seven isn't it? I really can't do this.

[Lulu]

In light of my foray back into the world of education and whatnot:

Grasping for the elusive college degree.

Or for my love of travel (and Willie Nelson):

Going places that I've never been.

[kendra]

Okay, I have to think on this one. Yours was great, by the way.

[Leslie]

Got book. Yours are as good.

[Betsy Bird]

Chocolate makes my world go 'round.

True, but not nearly as good as yours, especially the one about distraction.

[noble pig]

I have a dream. It's expensive.

[NinjaMama]

He was different, and she changed.

Like angels, sleeping. They're mostly awake.

[Madame Queen]

These are sooo hard. Like you I have a hard time narrowing down a time frame, but here goes. It kind of applies to a lot of things in my life.

I finally found a good one.

[Vanessa]

"I never picked the easy path."

[Kristy]

How about:

Could be better, could be worse.

or

So difficult, but over too quickly.

[Indecisive]

To blog, or not to blog?

[Tricia]

Like a whirlwind, I spun about.