Birdbaths and Paper Cranes

Syndicated columnist Sharon Randall''s writing style is intensely personal and unmistakably authentic as if she were writing a letter to a trusted friend. She shares stories of how her blind brother once tried to drive a car; her sister lost a wig on a bumper car ride; her husband coached basketball while battling cancer; and her oldest child grew up to be not a real doctor but play one on TV. In Randall''s hands even stories about ordinary thingsfrom a broken birdbath to a rusty porch swing to a thousand paper cranesall shine with extraordinary meaning and grace. Laughing or crying readers will surely see in her stories some of their own and may look at life in a new way.