Posts Tagged as ‘Six Words’

May 7, 2008

Six Little Words from Eighth Graders

It’s always refreshing and rewarding when a teacher uses something you’ve written in a classroom. So that’s why I’m posting this comment from Wendy Anderson, an eighth grade language arts teacher at Prairie Middle School, rather than simply using it as a comment to either my March 24 or April 7 posts (columns also appeared those days in The Gazette) about writing [...]

April 7, 2008

Six Little Words

This is the last word on writing your memoir in six words - at least from me and at least for a while.
I revisited the topic I first addressed March 24 in today’s Ramblin’ column in The Gazette.
I heard from a lot of Eastern Iowa readers but not as many as I’d hope. My only [...]

March 24, 2008

Blogging your life in six words

Describing your life in six words isn’t impossible, but it’s tough. Especially if, like life on Earth, you only get one shot at it.
If you read today’s Ramblin’ column in The Gazette, you see I gave it three shots: “Crawler, walker, jogger. Writer, Rambler, blogger” and “Born and raised a Ramblin’ man” and “Late, lost. [...]