Everybody Play Along! Roxie's Blog, Home Edition

Here it is, guys! Your chance to feel like a real, live, published author! Play along with me, and you, too, can be a famous, successful blog-writer whose work is read and cherished by adoring masses around the world!

Well, Mom and some English students from Bangladesh, anyway.

But.

Never mind that now.

I have been reading excerpts from the book, Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser. It's exactly what it sounds like. Six words that tell a story about your life. For instance, if I were Paris Hilton, mine might be:

I'm famous, but I forget why.

If I were Helen Keller, I might write:

Deaf, blind; still smarter than you.

How about for Oprah Winfrey:

Listen to me. I'm pretty rich.

John Wayne:

I should a been a cowboy.

OK, those were just off the top of my head, so they were a little weak, but you get the idea. Here are some great ones from the book, and from the Smith Magazine website:

Ran away with the circus. Never returned.

I managed not to destroy anything.

Wedding bands can easily come off.

Doing wrong thing created right person.

Road less traveled. Now know why.

Aren't those great? I don't know whose life stories those are, but they pretty much tell all you need to know, don't they?

You get the idea, now. It's your turn. You can either write them here on the "comments" link (Yes! You can be anonymous!) or e-mail them to me. It has to be six words. It has to be about you and your life. No points off for spelling or punctuation errors. No extra points for big words. Now unleash the muses!

Oh. Yeah. I suppose you want to hear mine first, though, don't you?

Gimme a minute. Need to think.