from shirley's cottage

Six Words
I read a feature in last Sunday’s paper that took me back to my first high school journalism assignment.
Our class was to write a story. When we turned them in, the teacher said, "Good. Now cut it in half." We looked at each other like he was crazy, bur we did it.
We turned them in again. "Good. Now cut it in half once more." We learned with that lesson that sometimes less is more.
The piece in the paper I read last week was titled Six Words. If my teacher was around today, he would have a field day.
Six words was inspired by Earnest Hemingway. He was asked tp write a story in just six words. He wrote: "For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn." It is said that he called it his best work.
As a result, authors, and writers from various venues were asked to submit their six words. They went into magazines. A book, Six Words-Memoirs was written. Now there is a website for anyone to try their hand at it. Try goggling..
I have read dozens of six-worders this week. Hemingway’s is by far the tear-jerker. I love this life-story: "Not quite what I expected" (Ain’t it the truth.)
My husband was a man of few words. We would tease that he didn’t say much, but we sure remembered everything he said.
Now that I know about six words, he is my favorite author. This is my favorite "story". His response to "Do you love me?" was "Yep. Or I wouldn’t be here." And he lived up to those six words.
I have to change my ways before I can attempt a story in six words. I have been counting my fingers and two thumbs all week.
I don’t even know if I can find a recipe with six ingredients.
I give up. Ten Ingredient Monkey Bars
you will need:
1 large ripe banana, mashed
½ cups each sugar and brown sugar
½ cup softened butter or margarine
½ t each vanilla and cinnamon
1 egg
1 cup flour