I’m thrilled to announce the release of the eighth book in the Six-Word Memoir series, Things Don’t Have to be Complicated: Illustrated Six-Word Memoirs by Students Making Sense of the World, published with TED Books, a division of the TED Conference.

Quick links:
• Download the book
• View excerpt/slideshows in the Washington Post and Brain [...]

Face it: six words to win $50 Shutterfly is a ton of fun. To enter this week’s contest leave a six-word caption to describe this photo you see here in the comments area below by 5pm EST this Friday, Dec. 21. Each entry should be separate comment and you can submit up to 10 entries; [...]

SMITH and Shutterfly’s Six-Word Caption Contest continues as we seek your six words that describe the photo you see above. One concise clown will win a gift certificate for $50 for Shutterfly. Leave your six-word caption in the comments area below by 5pm EST this Friday, Dec. 14. Each entry should be separate comment and [...]

SMITH and Shutterfly’s Six-Word Caption Contest continues as we seek your six words that describe the situation you see above. One lucky puppy will win a gift certificate for $50 for Shutterfly. Leave your six-word caption in the comments area below by 5pm EST this Friday. Each entry should be separate comment and you can [...]

And you thought you had a wild night? SMITH and Shutterfly’s Six-Word Caption Contest continues as we seek your six words that describe the situation you see here by 5pm EST on Friday. One punch-drunk six-word scribe will win a gift certificate for $50 for Shutterfly. Leave your six-word caption in the comments area below. [...]

As SMITH and Shutterfly’s Six-Word caption contest cruises into the holiday season, I can’t help but think of some of the messes I made a a boy around this time of year. When I was two, to name one of many incidents, I unplugged the refrigerator the night before Thanksgiving. But enough about me. Let’s [...]

SMITH and Shutterfly’s Six-Word caption contest revs up this week with a shiny, new photo. If you don’t know the drill, each Monday morning we post a photo from Shutterfly on the Six-Word Memoir project and you have until Friday at 5pm EST to write a six-word caption. One savvy six-word scribe wins a gift certificate for [...]

SMITH and Shutterfly’s Six-Word caption contest swings into November this week with another illuminating photograph. Here’s how it works: each Monday morning we post a photo from Shutterfly on the Six-Word Memoir project and you have until Friday at 5pm EST to write a six-word caption. One savvy six-word scribe wins a gift certificate for $50 for Shutterfly. [...]

SMITH and Shutterfly’s Six-Word caption contest gets in the holiday spirit this week with a photo fitting for All Hallow’s Eve. By now you may know the drill, but each Monday morning we post a photo from Shutterfly on the Six-Word Memoir project and you have until Friday at 5pm EST to write a six-word caption. One [...]

SMITH and Shutterfly’s Six-Word caption contest keeps rolling into—wait for it—its sixth week. It goes like this: Each Monday morning we post a photo from Shutterfly on the Six-Word Memoir project and you have until Friday at 5pm EST to write a six-word caption. One savvy six-word scribe wins a gift certificate for $50 [...]