With those six words, Earnest Hemingway proved that an entire story can be told using a half dozen words. From that idea online magazine SMITH challenged both their readers and contributors to write their own personal stories using only six words. More then 15, 000 people ended up submitting their memoirs to the magazine and 832 of them were made into the book "Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure". Some of the "famous" which the title eludes to are Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris, Joan Rivers, and Chuck Klosterman. Some of the obscure included 9-year-old Hannah Davies, who considers her life "Cursed with cancer. Blessed by friends." Or Cynthia Kaplan who laments "Became my Mother. Please shoot me."

Or yours truly, who on page 183, is one of six percent of the authors submitted, who's six word memoirs are now published for the world to see. It feels bizarre and surreal to say the least to be included in a book where I take up the same space as people like Dave Eggers (the man who created McSweeney's and has collaborated with Beck) and Dr. Jane Goodall (environmentalist, anthropologist and UN Messenger Of Peace). Which is what is behind the mission of SMITH Magazine which considers the site "both a place for professional and never-before-published writers, artists, and photographers, bound together by a passion for storytelling."

And it's not because I am in it that I consider this book amazing. There is no way to skim this book and not find something that you identify with. I had the book at the studio a couple weeks ago and Big Jim asked what I was reading. I explained the parameters of the book and to my surprise, he had heard of it. He asked if it was any good and I had to admit 1) that I had yet to read it because 2) I got it as a promotional copy for being it in. There was a pause, me expecting the obvious but letting him ask in order to not seem conceited. "What'd you write?"

"Life behind a microphone gets lonely."

He nodded his head. As a comic, and being on-air at the station, he knew the exact feeling. And that's what it's all about.