My Life In Six Words

I’ve been tagged by the talented Harlyn Aizley, who blogs at Are You My Mothers, to write a memoir of my life in six words or fewer, mention my tagger, and then tag five others. Let’s see:

Not what I expected.

A somewhat wordier recap: astronomy student, medieval historian, dotcom boomster, marketing executive at a major financial-services firm, mother, freelance writer. Couldn’t have predicted any of those stages when I started the previous one. A random walk indeed, but I’ve had good company along the way.

I’ll tag:

I’ll also ask readers without blogs to play along in the comments here.

When you’re done, you can go read Harlyn’s recent article, “Color Me Gay,” at Beacon Broadside.

2 thoughts on “My Life In Six Words”

  1. This must come from a newly published book, “Not Quite What I was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs from Writers Famous and Obscure”. The genesis of the book – I believe- comes from the famous story about Hemingway: that he bet that he could (or someone bet him that he couldn’t) write a compelling story in six words. His response? “For Sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” Compelling indeed.

    When I first heard that story, I thought about my own memoir in six words:
    What a ride we had together!

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