~~~Lara Zielin~~~

STATUS: Fabulous since I witnessed two of my favorite things combined last night: Biggest Loser and Australia.

FAVE LINKEY-POO RIGHT THIS SECOND: Rob just sent this to me. The story goes that someone once challenged Hemingway to write a short story in six words. The result was: For sale: baby shoes, never worn. Recently two enterprising writers issued a similar challenge by asking a whole bunch of people to pen their memoir in six words.

I love this idea. I am going to take a stab at it. Of course, I highly recommend the exercise, especially for other writers. Life in six words ain’t easy.

The following is just a start, and I’m not sure this is my final, final six-word memoir. But here goes anyway:

Looked inside finally; not so bad.

Maybe I’ll add s’more later. Is that cheating if you write more than one, then just pick the best one at the end? So, anyone else want to pen one and share?

Okay, I’m totally tacking on a post-script to this blog entry. I have two more six-word memoirs:

Sparkle is my other middle name

God was different than I thought

I can’t even say I’m done now. This is addictive!

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