Well: Share Six Words About Your Mother

 

Can you sum up your mother in just six words?

To celebrate Mother’s Day, the Well blog has teamed up with Smith magazine and the Six Word Memoir Project to create a new set of six-word “Momoirs.”

The challenge is to explain your mother, someone else’s mother or motherhood in general in just six words. Here are some examples:

A sake mom, not soccer mom.

In meeting. Binky in suit pocket.

Channeling June Cleaver without the pearls.

So many socks, so little time.

Fired therapist. One mother is enough.

Sometimes mom needs a time out.

Suffered miscarriage. Daughter offered her doll.

And did we mention this is a contest? We’ll pick six winners to receive a signed copy of “It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure.”

Winners will be selected by both the editors and the readers of the Well blog, so be sure to vote for your favorites. Using our interactive module, readers will have the opportunity to “Like” individual entries on Facebook, and share them with their friends.

Larry Smith, editor of Smith magazine, also will pick several favorite Momoirs to be featured during the next Six-Word Memoir Story Slam, “I Am Turning into My Mother,” to be held May 18 at the 92nd Street Y Tribeca Main Stage in New York. Check the Web site for tickets and more details.

And now, tell us about your mom or motherhood with your six-word Momoir by clicking on the link. Your contest entry must be only six words, but if you have more to say, feel free to come back to Well to join the discussion.

See other entries and enter your own six-word Momoir here.