What will you do with your one sweet life?

Note to Readers: Sharon Randall is taking a week off to spend time with family. The following column was published in October 2012, when she lived in Las Vegas.

The toys were taking over. Not my toys. I don’t have any. And not my husband’s toys, either, though he has plenty — basses and guitars and ukuleles and plastic fruit noise makers.

When asked what I do for a living, I’m tempted to say, “I’m an entertainer. I stand half naked in public, baring my soul and juggling live chickens.”

Children are born to bring light into the world.

Let me introduce you to my new hairdresser, Eleanor Rose.

Lately I’ve spent a lot of time listening to a tree. You might blame it on age. Or insanity.

I’m watching them across the table, two beautiful young women, deep in conversation.

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My dad left this world long ago but my memories of him shine clear and bright and true.

What do you do if the power goes off? Me? I don’t do much.

Someone sent me an email about a gas station in South Africa, where the owner posts daily “inspirational” quotes on a chalkboard in plain view of customers and passing drivers.

Recently I heard a joke that seems fitting for Mother’s Day. I would gladly cite the source, but I don’t recall where I heard it, just as I often don’t recall where I left the glasses that are sitting on my head. Here’s the joke: