There’s a box of old VHS tapes in my dad’s house that my brother and I want to digitize, keeping alive the memories of our childhood captured by our parents. Some of the ones my brother has done already show us singing to our grandfather across the country in Maine, getting haircuts and running around our local Greenbrae park, where a stranger kindly let us pet their dog. There’s so much I wish I could say to that little bowl-cut version of me. If you were given the chance to speak to your younger self, what would you tell them? What advice would you give? Whatever comes to mind, I’d love to know. Please make it a six-word story, a personal short story, with a beginning, middle and end. Make us laugh or cry or at the least feel something. For example, here is the famous story attributed to, but not proven to be written by, Ernest Hemingway: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” That’s quite the story! If you want your story to run in the IJ, please: • Write “Six-word story” in the subject line • Send one six-word story. Just one • Include your full name and Marin town in the body of the email, no attachments • Write your short story in the body of the email, no attachments • Use sentence style in one line Please send to lifestyles@marinij.com by June 13 and look for it in the June 24 lifestyles section and online.