real

I do not consider myself to be a writer.

Oh, I dabble a little….

I once wrote an article for a little women’s magazine.

Never did submit it…..

I write this blog as a gift to my family

Memory stones, if you will.

I try to recount old memories while adding the new ones.

If other people enjoy reading our stories

well, I’m grateful

(although - I do wonder why?!)

Not terribly long ago

after reading one of my posts

Lana said,“That sounded just like Sharon Randall.”

Boy did I get the big head!

~

As her Mother’s Day gift to me this year

Lana bought tickets for us to see

Sharon Randall!

Her column appears in our Monday paper

and Lana and I both enjoy

both

her writing style

and

the content.

She just writes about life

and she does it in such a way

that her readers can really identify with her.

Several years ago

our newspaper subscription expired.

In a stupid move on the part of the SWTR,

Sharon’s column was no longer in our paper.

I couldn’t get a super deal to re-subscribe

(my limit is $1.50 a week, although I prefer $1)

So we just quit taking the paper;

without Sharon Randall on Mondays,

why bother?

~

Tyler asked me before we went

“So what is it about this Sharon Randall?

Is she some big conservative Christian writer?”

I thought a minute.

“She’s real.

She can make me laugh

and

cry.

Sometimes with the same article.

Is she super conservative?

I don’t know.

(she does live in Las Vegas of all places)

But I certainly think she’s a christian

and she's an excellent writer.”

~
We weren’t disappointed!

While we didn’t find Sharon to be an exceptional speaker

we did find her to be exactly as we expected.

Real.

She was gracious and humble.
She looked exactly like her picture.

She was funny.
I think she may have been a little frightened by our mayor.

But mostly

she was real.

Sharon shared something her grandmother always said:

Always be yourself.

Never pretend to be what you aren’t,

or to know what you don’t know.

~

One of the greatest compliments to me

is

“You are real”

(said in a positive tone, of course ;-)

Well,

that

and

“You write like Sharon Randall”

Thanks, Lana!
It was a great evening
and one of my best Mother's Day gifts.