Your life in a tweet

Author, teacher, columnist Jules Older writing on his occasional  WRITER’S LIFEGUARD set his readers a challenge:


Ur Life ina Tweet

Here was the challenge: In the length of a tweet —140 characters, max — tell either your life story or your work history.

Your responses were… amazing. Tragic, funny, poetic, original.

Let us start with the tragic… but first, the tragic background. Those who have been Lifeguards for some time already know the horrible story. One ordinary afternoon in Vancouver, Michel Beaudry’s wife was murdered in a park near their home. Her killer has never been found. Here is Michel today:

Healthy mind-body
Were life goals that seemed worthy
Now I have neither


Vermont poet David Budbill reveals his life from beginning to not-quite end:

Born 1940 Cleveland Writes poems, plays, essays Lives in Northern Vermont Gardens, plays music, cuts firewood, rides a bike. Not dead yet.


Glaswegian travel writer living in San Francisco, Sheila O’Connor is cautious:

Gr8 Scot, luvs 2 laf - ull av 2 show me yrs 1st, then I'll decide


In her first tweet ever, Colorado snowboard writer and fashionista Jenn Weed sums up her life this way:

Arrogant men. Sikhs with swords. The establishment. A corrupt, violent tribal leader in a dark stairwell in Africa. And God. Eventually, a fighter learns to love.

From Virginia, journalist/editor Becky Blanton delivers her work history in 131 characters:

Dated & was wooed by 110+ jobs from raft guide to cop to massage therapist,
but fell in love with and married journalism & writing.

In the challenge, I said, “Sho me urs, I’ll show you mn.” Here’s mn:

Jules Older PhD: psychologist > medical educator > writer > editor > app creator > videographer. Big awards, big adventures, big fun.