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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Six Word Memoir Redux

The 6 word memoir craze...everyone seems to be jumping on the bandwagon. A couple of weeks ago I was browsing through a copy of AARP (my husbands!) when the article Less Is L'Amour caught my eye. AARP invited readers to tell their tales of love and heartbreak-in half a dozen words or less. The very next day Megan I were chatting about what to blog about, tossing ideas back and forth. Now, I had already decided I was going for the 6 word memoir idea. I wasn't even hinting at it with Megan cause I needed my own something to write about. All of a sudden it was if she read my mind (did you Megan?) and says, I've been thinking about blogging about the book that Smith Magazine wrote compiling six word memoirs. There went MY blog. In all fairness, Megan did a real good job telling about the project and the book and actually getting some readers to respond with their own "cardinal number that is the sum of five plus one" memoirs. I really couldn't have done better. You can read her blog by cutting and pasting this address into your browser

http://www.engagedpatrons.org/Blogs.cfm?SiteID=9336&BlogID=181&BlogPostID=5505

AARP didn't stop with tales of love. In that same issue they invited reader to sum up in six words "the best advice you've ever gotten-or given"
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Still these memoir subjects aren't quite what I had in mind. Given that this week is banned book week and an opportunity to celebrate our freedom to read I'd like to hear your six word memoir regarding

What does reading mean to you?

Think and share. One great example...can't remember who penned it, sums it up quite nicely and is evidenced in Sara Nelson's great book by the same name:

So many books, so little time!

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Megan Q. said, on Sep. 28 at 7:12AM
I did read your mind!

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David said, on Sep. 28 at 11:31AM
Secret escape, not from, but towards.

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Jennie said, on Sep. 28 at 12:10PM
I will never ever be bored!

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terry said, on Sep. 28 at 12:24PM
travel far with paper and ink

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CarolK said, on Sep. 28 at 4:10PM
Keep them coming. I'm lovin' these.

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Ellen said, on Sep. 28 at 6:23PM
All you can eat idea buffet.

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Candice said, on Sep. 29 at 5:36AM
Words, perfectly arranged, feed my mind.

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Jane said, on Sep. 29 at 7:51AM
A neccesity of life; can't stop

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CarolK said, on Sep. 30 at 2:46PM
If I had thought about my question a bit more I might have worded it - What do books and reading mean to you? Not much difference but just a bit.

Last night while tossing and turning I was thinking about my own 6 word memoir. I should keep a notepad and pen by the bed as I know I thought of something brilliant and lost it through the night.

Here's a few of my thoughts:
Books, never leave home without one!
Open a book, a world unfolds.
A bedtime story. Goodnight. Sleep tight!
Cherished pages, cherished stories, cherised memories!
and even Seusss works with Oh, The Places You Will Go!

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Lynn Schlatter said, on Oct. 7 at 11:32AM
I'm more in touch with everything.