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. Learned, laughed. Lived, Loved."

I rejected plenty of others.

If I were to view my life through selected cars I've owned, I can start with my first in 1971 and go up through what sits in my garage: "Corvair, Falcon, RX-7, Park Avenue, Porsche911."

I could get philosophical: "The glass is always half full," or "Live for today, look toward tomorrow" or "Dream. Work. Believe. Make it happen."

I could be fun: "Make mine Lite, keep the change" or "First born, married late, second childhood."

Try this link to NPR's Blog of the Nation: http://www.npr.org/blogs/talk/2008/02/a_life_in_six_words_1.html Make sure you scroll down and zip around the site to find hundreds of examples.

If you've got a great idea for your life in six words -- no more and no less -- leave me a comment here or shoot me an e-mail at dave.rasdal@gazettecommunications.com

Let's have fun with this. If I get enough responses, we'll revisit this in a couple of weeks, both in the newspaper and here.

In the meantime, life isn't as short as six little words. Enjoy yours.