October 27, 2008 - The Six Word Memoir

"and they call that a tree"

Student teacher and wonderful new sister-friend Dana Comiskey assigned students a six word memoir. The idea was pillaged from a Smith Magazine project. Smith was inspired by a legend that Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in six words. His response was, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." The Smith Magazine website now contains and shares hundreds of thousands of six word stories written by as many authors. Dana's assignment inspired my own tiny collection of favorites by friends, family, colleagues, students, and a few of my own:


Mine

• "and they call that a tree"
• Married the best man I know
• Outside I am inside a church

Dana's

• I wear sweatpants whenever I can
• Wore fake glasses over contact lenses

Bob's

• I'm what they call man pretty
• sports trivia run by me first

Student favorites

• Found true love lost my soul ~Stacey Fox
• Truth outside my heart lies inside  ~Shaniece Wells

Jenn L's

• A lot I wish I was
• I didn't need to be Mrs. Badonka-donk
• There's nothing I won't say publicly

Joe D's

• Tried everything, liked some, loved few
• I have no moral center, biatch

Ken W's

• I always do it my way

Dakoda M's

• Will be the world's best baller

Mary-Tina's

• Fro it up like I do

T.J.'s

• Make every day a circus day