In this issue...

• No Rocking Chair for This Great-Grandmother
• The REAL Cost of Homeownership
• 6-Word Memoirs — A Fun Read!

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6-Word Memoirs — A Fun Read!

Ernest Hemingway, as legend has it, was once challenged to write a story in 6 words. He came back with, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." Some say he called it his best work. Others dismiss the anecdote as a literary folktale. Either way, the 6-word story was born, and it's been popping up around the writing world for years.

Reinventing the art of story-telling, SMITH Magazine decided, in 2006, to give Papa Hemingway's form a new, personal twist: What would a 6-word memoir look like?

Short, life-affirming stories like these are now submitted daily to the SMITH website:

• Anything's possible with an extension cord.
• Perpetual work in progress; need editor.
• I colored outside of the lines.
• Always working on the next chapter.
• If there's more, I want it.
• Drew on walls, creative for life.

Join the battle of brevity at www.smithmag.net/sixwords. Read more memoirs and write one of your own. In fact, since La Costa Glen is all about inspiring physical, emotional, intellectual and social well-being, share your creativity by CLICKING HERE to send us your own 6-word memoir. We just may publish it in an upcoming issue of La Costa Glen Living.

You may also want to pick up the book that served as our resource — Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure, edited by SMITH Magazine, published by Harper, 2008. It's a fun read — and certainly one we recommend, no matter what your age.