The question
How would you sum yourself up in three words?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Small, determined, lucky.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 July 2026 source ↗
Actress, mother, grandmother.
Ponderous, over thinking.
Chaotic, warm, northern.
Content, assured, indecisive.
Sorry is such an underrated word – I use it liberally.
Last week, when I decided to rewrite the children’s book I’ve been working on.
My parents died within four days of each other. I was engulfed as I ran from one bedside to another.
An inability to see the other side.
For the words to fly from my fingers as just occasionally they do.
Did I behave in the right way?
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