Sharon's Blog

How good are you at talking to people?   You probably think you're either a good conversationalist, or not. As if it's a genetic thing;...

How many songs are there in the world? Ten million? One-hundred million?   Whatever, it's a lot.   And of those, how many are widely...

It's early, and I know a lot can happen in the next four months, but I'm putting this out there just to challenge myself in a public way:...

It's no secret or surprise that we are in the darkest days of the year. These long nights are the way of the universe, more regular than...

Young Caitlin, leaning into her future career My husband and I wax nostalgic when we say that we came up during the golden age of...

When I think of hurricanes, which I've done a lot since Helene and now Milton, I think of Steve Gleason .   Steve is the former National...

I got this meme from an intern working with me back when I was vice president of a PR firm. She handed it to me with a knowing smile,...

It wasn't the story headline, or even the gripping opening sentences that grabbed me. It was the photo cutline: Vari Vati's son, Tama...

I am planning a trip to the Pacific northwest with a person who has an aversion to travel. No, I'm not a masochist. I'm married....

Maybe for you, like me, music is the catalyst for a whole raft of memories: My inner freedom-fighter rising up to the sound of the “Les...

Amid my irrepressible joy over the recent birth of my third grandson, I immediately started worrying. Not about him; about his parents....

I've spent the past two years talking about my story, as part of the tour for my memoir, “It's Hard Being You.” “We tell ourselves...

That headline is the description I put on this photo way back in 2013, when my husband and I were just tiptoeing into the tremendous...

If you're of a certain age, you may remember visits with your cousins where all kinds of mischief ensued. This was mainly due to the...

I've been waiting to send this blog, hoping to save you “collectors of things” from yourselves. You know who you are, and we know what...

Tis the season for appreciating just how valuable – and vital – greetings are. We reflexively offer up “season's greetings” to people we...

I was only a few weeks into luxuriating in the news that my third grandson would be arriving early next year – I know, I'm rich! – when a...

I think I gave my kids some pretty good advice as they were growing up. But the best advice I ever heard directed at them actually came...

I have been deep into culling my belongings and finding new homes for them. And fall seems to accelerate this endeavor. Last year it was...

True confession: I've been hanging out with people I don't regularly associate with, at least not in these numbers. I thought I knew a...