Each week, we bow our heads humbly as you share brilliant Six-Word Memoirs. Here are six (seven, actually) we love from the week ending May 21. Click on each author’s name to check out more memoirs.
Didn’t See That Sixth Word Coming: “Fantasize running naked in snow. (Menopause.)” -thebeachisgud
We Read the Six Today, Oh Boy: “Back [...]

When people ask me, “How was your day?” I never really know the straightforward, completely appropriate answer. “Good,” “bad,” and “okay” are too short. And I’m sure the person listening to you doesn’t want to hear you rattle off everything you did today.
One approach: answer in six words.
Inspired by SMITH’s Six-Word Memoir project, Austin [...]

We asked you to submit Six-Word MOMoirs in tribute of Mother’s Day and the response was overwhelming! It didn’t take a Freud to analyze the importance of moms from the thousands of MOMoirs we received, but it did take a lot of tough decision making to choose our winners.
Our winners of Six-Word MOMoirs on being [...]

Each week, you send in hundreds of Six-Word Memoirs. Here are six we love from the week ending May 7. Click on each author’s name to check out more memoirs he or she’s written.
Six in the News: “Leaving the United States. Entering Arizona,” by Loon
Best Use of Technology: “Photoshop makes me younger and younger,” by [...]

Each week, you send in hundreds of Six-Word Memoirs. Here are six we love from the week of April 19. Click on each author’s name for to see more memoirs he or she has penned.
Wittiest six: “Tried quitting. Close but still cigar.” —lmattozz
Six heady words: “In my head, things went differently.” — Alex Mess
That [...]

While I may not have had a maze of long lines (or people camping out the night before) like fans did for Sarah Palin and Dog the Bounty Hunter—both of whom were at our local Borders in Springfield, MO recently—I did have a strong, loyal showing for my first-ever book signing for It All [...]

The conflict in Sudan is no stranger to headlines, but it is to the Six-Word form. See how blogger and writer,Patrick Wilson, used the Six-Word Memoir to convey the gravity of the situation in Sudan in his short video. Many stories have sprang from the Sudanese civil war like that of the Lost [...]

Jennifer Labbienti tells a short backstory about her Six-Word Memoir, “I Still Practice My Oscar Speech,” at a reading in Seattle’s University Books on January 13, 2010.

Tiffany Shlaln, a wonderful media maker, shares a powerful six-word memoir, and the backstory, at a reading at San Francisco’s Book Passage on January 12, 2010 during our tour for It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure.

As we count down to Valentine’s Day, it’s hard not to be nostalgic for last year. Instead of one date, I had almost 300, all readers and writers and storytellers packed into my favorite place. Frank showed postcards; Davey read found love letters; Jason showed off mixtapes; David and Neil mortified us all. But nothing [...]