SHARON RANDALL COLUMN FOR TUES., DEC. 6, 2011

It’s a long way from South Carolina to Las Vegas. My sister doesn’t get to visit us often. So when I heard she was coming for 10 days, I began to plan. [Read more…]

Me, writing a column late at night

My grandcat Mazzy, in the Christmas tree.

My sister (center), my daughter (right), my Baby H (in my lap!) and me.

Our fake Christmas tree

December in the desert . . . .

I don’t need a calendar at my house to know that December has arrived. [Read more…]

SHARON RANDALL COLUMN FOR TUES., NOV. 29, 2011

What is it about Christmas that makes kids try to be “good” and old people act like kids? [Read more…]

SHARON RANDALL COLUMN FOR TUES., NOV. 22, 2011

I never meant to instigate a fight between my sister and her daughter. Why would I want to do that? Lord knows, when it comes to fighting, they don’t need any help from me. [Read more…]

A few good words . . . .

A friend emailed recently to say he liked the quote I had posted (by Louis L’Amour.) In return, he offered the following quote by Ernest Hemingway, who wrote in “A Farewell to Arms”:

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places.”

Here’s my question, a two-parter: How is the world breaking you? And how is it making you strong?”

SHARON RANDALL COLUMN FOR TUES., NOV. 15, 2011

Traditions are like the people who try to keep them: Sooner or later, like it or not, they change. [Read more…]