Everyone has that moment in their life that they can recall as life altering, be it good or bad. Larry Smith and the creators of Six-Word Memoirs have listened to people who wanted their story to be told beyond their allotted six words and have created a book of short vignettes of famous and not so famous people recalling their life changing moment. From the moment when best-selling author Diane Ackerman’s husband had a stroke and she thought their life together as she knew it was over (it was, but she never expected their new life could be just as good or better) to photojournalist Michael Forster Rothbart’s “someday” when he and his wife would have their first child, the “someday” that came before he thought he was ready, but cannot now imagine being without. Some moments are a combination of drawings and text, others carefully planned out thoughts, others more stream of conscious, some public moments, some extremely personal, some followed by related six –word memoirs, each providing insight and offering us the chance to reflect on our Moment. The Moment should not be read cover to cover, but thumbed through, reading passages that speak to you at particular times, rereading some, skipping over others, finding surprises and secrets along the way.
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