I recently stumbled upon the New Dharma Bums blog and found this by Robin Andrea: I was tagged to do the six-word autobiography. I don’t usually do memes, but this one only requires six little words.

At Reader’s Digest, we love stories. From exciting thrillers to harrowing tales of survival, stories remind us of love, loss, and what it means to be human. And a good story doesn’t have to be long.

As a founding editor of SMITH Magazine in 2006, Larry Smith proposed the idea of six-word memoirs as one way for people to express their life stories. The memoirs were meant as interpretations and ...

Mr. Smith is the creator of Six Word Memoirs. Since 2006, I’ve been challenging people to describe their lives in six words, a form I call the six-word memoir — a personal twist on the legendary ...