Archive for June 2006

Leah,

Posted to Uncategorized on 30 June 2006, with no comments so far.

>>The prompt: 400-word autobiography It was always cloudy in my town. Some people get a headache when it’s about to rain—those people would have a headache all day. When it did rain, the green was electric and the flowers (lilac, forsythia, heather) would spring at you like wild cats. Winters were icy, locked-in, white and [...]

Pat,

Posted to Uncategorized on 29 June 2006, with no comments so far.

>>The prompt: 400-word autobiography I’ve always wanted more out of life. I grew up in an EXTREMELY religious household with tons of restrictions. I’ve always tried to get more—never got it. Got married to Sherman at nineteen—guess it was because he asked me. I wanted more from marriage, never got it. Wasn’t he supposed to [...]

Derek,

Posted to Uncategorized on 28 June 2006, with no comments so far.

>>The prompt: 400-word autobiography I now reside in Portland, Oregon. I arrived here two years ago in a beat-up truck with everything I owned crammed into the bed and cab. I was fleeing Lee’s Summit, Missouri, where I had worked for a shady sub-contractor for the Justice Department—blowing the whistle led to my termination. I [...]

Why

Posted to 400 Words News on 13 June 2006, with 1 comment so far.

A couple of updates: As of about ten days ago, I’ve got an account with Google’s newish Analytics tool. I learned about Analytics at my new fancy job as a professional blogger-wrangler (don’t ask; it’s complicated), and now I’m living the joy of having Analytics slice and dice, in an unbelievable number of ways, the [...]