If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. ~ Charlie Parker
Your Days/Week in Six Words

This week’s Day in a Sentence returns to a popular format — the Six Word Variation. I had been thinking of this for a few weeks now, but then Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach (at her blog, 21st Century Learning) used the technique this week on Twitter, asking folks to submit their Six Word Memoir.
Once again, I was moved by how powerful the writing can be within the six word limit (and see the book called Not Quite Was I Expecting for a collection of six word memoirs — great stuff).
So, I ask you to consider joining us this week with a six word recap of either a day from your week or your entire week. Here is how Day in a Sentence works:
- Boil down your day or week into six words
- Use the comment link on this post to submit your six words
- I collect all of the comments and then post them all as a collection on Sunday
- Feel free to use podcasting, video, plain ‘ol writing, hand signals (no wait, that won’t work)
- Everyone is welcome!
And since one of the tasks of the 31 Day Comment Challenge is to use comments and submissions from visitors in a blog post, this works out nicely. So I am tagging the challenge here, in hopes that some new folks will wander in and take part in the activity.
Here is my Six Word Week, and I am experimenting with Odeo Studio for a podcasting workshop this weekend, so let me give it a try with my words that relate to some state standardized testing this week that has kids and teachers on edge:
Math testing stresses us all out.
Peace (in minimal words).
Kevin
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