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Friday, February 29, 2008 12:00 AM

Memoir in six words

Can you describe your life in half a dozen words? Members of Salon's reader community, Table Talk, take a crack at it this week.

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Friday, February 29, 2008 11:20 AM

Music

When all else fails, music endures.

Friday, February 29, 2008 11:31 AM

Um...

Um... what was the question again?

Friday, February 29, 2008 11:36 AM

Nobody likes me.

Screw them all.

Friday, February 29, 2008 11:45 AM

Can you...

...get me another beer?

Friday, February 29, 2008 12:00 PM

(at 26...)

Too young for life's great questions.

Friday, February 29, 2008 12:24 PM

My life in just six words?

It's really none of your business.

Friday, February 29, 2008 12:31 PM

Great beginnings

Rough childhood

Better now.

Friday, February 29, 2008 12:33 PM

my six word memoir

Striving to be a socialist dictator.

Friday, February 29, 2008 12:37 PM

Cogito...

...ergo dubito, dubito ergo succumbo

(I think therefore I doubt, I doubt therefore I surrender.)

Friday, February 29, 2008 01:21 PM

In 6 words

I wrote three, six-word memoirs. Here's my favorite.

Tackles too much, gets much done

(The others are on my blog, FYI: http://writerbug.blogspot.com/2008/02/my-memoir-in-6-words.html)

Friday, February 29, 2008 01:33 PM

life in 6 words

My wife:

knit, read, school, yoga, family... repeat.

Me:

do, do, do, do, do, think.

Friday, February 29, 2008 01:46 PM

Don't forget the book!

"Not Quite What I Was Planning" from the editors of SMITH.net, and the inspiration for the thread.

Friday, February 29, 2008 02:22 PM

Memoir in six words

Skipped the present pursuing the future.

Friday, February 29, 2008 03:01 PM

memoir in six words... easy

If there is no wind, row.

Friday, February 29, 2008 03:16 PM

laugh,

shout, give; repeat as necessary.

Friday, February 29, 2008 03:34 PM

Marine loves wife and kids.

Marine loves wife and kids.

Friday, February 29, 2008 05:19 PM

Answered

Questioned and Answered, Helped when possible.

That's Mine

Hannibal Lector's:

Friends for dinner. Serve with Chianti

Friday, February 29, 2008 05:30 PM

Come

ON, Don't you EVER learn?

Friday, February 29, 2008 05:40 PM

Never do silly things like this.

Never do silly things like this.

Friday, February 29, 2008 06:06 PM

Possibility is always

better than actuality.

Friday, February 29, 2008 08:00 PM

Six Words

Slackie...

1. Statuesque

2. Silly

3. Snarky

4. Sarcastic

5. Sinister

6. Scribbler

Friday, February 29, 2008 09:09 PM

Haven't

lived up to my potential.

Friday, February 29, 2008 09:53 PM

Life

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem

Friday, February 29, 2008 10:18 PM

Jump Right In And Play.

1. Okay, that was only five words.

2. But I didn't read the article.

3. I enjoy even as you suffer.

4. Boy did that ever sound nasty.

5. I didn't mean it that way.

6. Thank you salon for engaging me.

7. The letter writers are the best.

8. I think of them as friends.

9. Even AKA Smith who likes Hillary.

10. Let's stick together in the fall.

Friday, February 29, 2008 10:35 PM

I wanted to be a contender.

'Nuff said.

Friday, February 29, 2008 10:54 PM

Billy Fla

I jes keep on keepin' on...

Saturday, March 1, 2008 12:59 AM

US

Been read my rights I'm Blue

Saturday, March 1, 2008 05:14 AM

My memoir in six words.

Learned it, used it, forgot it.

Saturday, March 1, 2008 09:27 AM

my six words

Epitaph: Born. Died. Mostly he tried.

Saturday, March 1, 2008 09:31 AM

Memori in six words

Painful childhood, dreamy youth, now wilderness

Saturday, March 1, 2008 09:32 AM

Should read memoir...

But, now I think, memori suits.

Saturday, March 1, 2008 10:20 AM

Memoir in six words

The greatest underachiever in the world.

Saturday, March 1, 2008 10:43 AM

my life has been...

Restless, fearful, hopeless, hopeful, joyful, thankful.

Saturday, March 1, 2008 11:25 AM

Memoir in six words

Astonished I've made it this far.

Saturday, March 1, 2008 12:07 PM

Happy

Happy, despite dead-ends and detours.

Saturday, March 1, 2008 12:21 PM

Montyhines - that is great.

My effort:

It makes more sense looking back.

Saturday, March 1, 2008 12:35 PM

six word memoir

liked the book, preferred the movie.

Saturday, March 1, 2008 02:00 PM

memoir

30 years of skiing Utah powder

Saturday, March 1, 2008 03:06 PM

Just keep doing the next thing.

But I stole that from my husband's grandmother, who said it at the age of 99 when asked for advice about life. But I guess in this context, I should say:

Just kept doing the next thing.

Saturday, March 1, 2008 03:44 PM

can't be good, be careful

Brilliant Bountiful Biologist, works at library

Saturday, March 1, 2008 04:34 PM

6wordstoomany

Was and remain 100% potential. john h higgins cazador@nnex.net

Saturday, March 1, 2008 05:09 PM

Made other plans, but life happened.

Can't. Teach. Twain is an asshole.

Saturday, March 1, 2008 06:53 PM

My biography:

Hands fail. Marriage fails. Then love.

Saturday, March 1, 2008 08:19 PM

My life in half a dozen words

Support family. Sing, dance, kvetch. Love!

Saturday, March 1, 2008 09:46 PM

I've tried to get serious, but...

Monty Python, Tom Lehrer, and baseball.

Saturday, March 1, 2008 11:51 PM

30

Traveled widely; still haven't found home.

Sunday, March 2, 2008 07:50 AM

What else can I say?

It's the best I've ever had.

Sunday, March 2, 2008 08:59 AM

seeking

I am a beautiful woman from US. Internet is a quite good place to meet friends and even find whatever your need. i am just

in the beginning of my career and want to find a rich man, maybe to be my sugar daddy. so i uploaded my hot and even sexy

photos on S e e k i n g u n i f o r m.c o m under the name wantadaddy, maybe you want to check out my photos firstl

Sunday, March 2, 2008 02:37 PM

Me...

Unrelentingly hopeful in a mad world.

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