A new topic for min-terviews, May 23

By On May 23, 2010 · 12 Comments · In Featured, Minterview

Easy to participate.  Answer either of these questions yourself, or, even better, interview someone and post their response.  Great way to meet someone of your preferred gender or start a conversation in a room full of strangers. 150 words, here are your questions. Pick one or the other or both.  Answer in the comment box below.

More than anything else, what was the last thing you wanted your life partner to know about you?

And, two, in these tough times, what one family heirloom would you refuse to sell, and why?

 
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  • Star5fallonmyheart

    But I don't have a life partner…

    Hmm. That's a bit of a tough question, that second one. I think one thing I don't think we COULD give away even if we wanted was the plaque of our family crest on my mom's side. That traces our family tree from my great-grandparents to subsequent generations all the way down to the present day (roughly 2002; my little cousin Leilani wasn't born when we had it made for my grandparent's golden anniversary). You look at it and think “Wow. All of these people wouldn't exist if these two people didn't fall in love.” I'm the result of somebody's love story. Hopefully my parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc.

  • http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/wartime/ Sean Labrador y Manzano

    Heirloom? My Reel-to-Reel. Because it is audio technology without a built in self-destruct, when there wasn't manufactured obsolescence. A reel had 6-10 hours of music. Before ipods–that was endurance.

  • http://www.awordwithyoupress.com/ Thornton Sully

    I thought reel-to-reel was a reality show. Sean, how about you asking the question of someone else and start an on-line dialogue for them? Post their minterview, tell them to see it on line and see what kind of comments they get?

  • http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/wartime/ Sean Labrador y Manzano

    I'm alone at work–I'm interviewing myself between writing cover letters. LOL!

  • Peggy R. Dobbs

    After 62 years, my life partner knows all there is to know about me. Seriously, we took tests once in a group situation where we answered a questionaire about ourselves and then had our mates answer the same questionaire about us to see if we really knew each other. Our's was about 95% right about each other. Ok, Thorn, I know, its that 5% you're asking about. I think it had to do with what kind of pie I liked best. Just because I had made so many chocolate pies for him through the years, he thought that was my favorite as well.
    I'm combining the two questions, because I settled what I would go after in a fire years ago. It isn't an heirloom, but it is more important to me than any heirloom. My study Bible. There are so many years of my life and so many notations, happy and sad, in it that there is no way I could come close to replacing it. I could replace the written word but not what I thought or felt about what I was studying along the journey of my spiritual life. If the fire was not raging, I would go back for my mother's diaries she began writing them my first year of high school and kept them until a week before she died in 1997. I believe that is 49 hard back books. They would mean nothing to anyone except my family. Even though they were written in incomplete sentences and are mostly facts without feelings, they are still priceless to me. On the way out the door, surely I could grab a few pictures of my babies before they got too singed.

  • http://twitter.com/daniellefab daniellefab

    Gosh, not a whole lot of family heirlooms here in SoCal.

    I do plan to make a family heirloom out of two pieces of jewelry.

    One is from my mother, when we visited Italy. She allowed me to buy one special memento, and I chose a gold-plated Zodiac pendant. It's on the simplest chain, and it's not too much larger than a quarter. You can change the position of the dial to whatever sign you are (or want to be).

    The other is a long black necklace, very heavy, that holds in its grasp a pink crystal. It probably won't ever mean as much to anyone else, but my father read my first novel, and then hunted for a necklace exactly like the main character wears. It's beautiful.

  • http://www.awordwithyoupress.com/ Thornton Sully

    Your Dad sounds charming. What was the novel, and who was the character? Was it a novel you wrote, or a novel your father read to you? I think you've just intrigued us. tell us about it

  • http://twitter.com/daniellefab daniellefab

    He is charming. And complicated. And very good at figuring out what really matters. The novel is the first I've written, sadly still unpublished (but hey it's only been a year!) The main character is a sixteen-year-old girl who wears a necklace made of vines, and hides an important gem among them.

    Thank you for asking :)

  • http://www.awordwithyoupress.com/ Thornton Sully

    A Word with You Press has a standing offer to read up to three chapters of a writer's work and give professional feedback, which differs a little bit from what is expressed publicly on the blogs. Send us your stuff, if you like, up to 50 pages. In the subject line, put “Pro Bono Assessment” and send to info@awordwithyoupress.com

    OR…you can send a chapter for our new feature “A Word from You” , we'll post it and let you get reader feedback. Send it to our new content editor, monika@awordwithyoupress.com

  • Jamie

    My family heirlooms are so very precious because they tie me to the past with a visual and tangible item that has absolutely no value to anyone else (except my sisters and they are not getting them).

    My mother passed away in her room on a rainy Saturday in November while, as a 7 year old, I watched cartoons in the living room. My life became a blur for a number of months and ended with my twin and I living with our older sister with none of our possessions (or mementos), except our clothes.

    Years later, an aunt came by and she gave me a pair of booties and my mothers christening gown that had been made by my Great Great Grandmother. The details are incredible and the buttons so tiny and they are mine, mine, mine. They are my one link to a past I can never really know.

  • Jamie

    More than anything else, what was the last thing you wanted your life partner to know about you?
    Well now, if I told it here, he would know, silly (Sully) man.

  • http://www.awordwithyoupress.com/ Thornton Sully

    It wasn't the handcuffs, was it?