Summer 2008 – Recently NPR’s Talk of the Nation featured an article on the newly released book, Not Quite What I was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure, by Larry Smith & Rachel Fershleiser. Read excerpts from the book or listen to the show here. Email your 6-word memoir to Xan and I will post them here.
The gift hummingbird feeder changed everything.
~~ Lisa Weeks ~~
Friends, family. Endless adventures. No regrets.
~~ Xavier Stevens ~~
Knitting while driving, she died happy.
~~ Xan ~~
Reject null; laughed, loved, lived. Lucky!
~~ Angi Miller ~~
Lead herself into temptation. Loved it.
~~ Megan Green ~~
I got up and kept going.
~~ Liz Smith ~~
Lived without fear, loved without caution!
~~ Rae/Roya ~~
Knowing things, he strive’d to share.
~~ Adam Crafter ~~
Change, change again, change back, repeat.
~~ Jim Dick ~~
Should have eaten more Hostess cupcakes.
~~ Paula Peters ~~
Nice guys are a catch, eventually.
~~ Clint Wedel ~~
Succulent steak, gorgeous vista, torrid lovemaking.
~~ Brandy Haan ~~
Served happiness, unlimited love per customer!
~~Debz Shakti Buller