Articles by Janet Hart Leonard

Aroundtuit?

From the Heart In all of this chaos and cluster I have found my aroundtuit! You know, those things that I always wanted to do when I had the time…


And it came to pass …

From the Heart Someday, it will all be better. But … I will have found a different normal. I’m usually up by 7:30. I soon find myself at our kitchen…


The up of the downside

From the Heart Hello friends! This week I have turned over my keyboard to my daughter, Emily. She and her husband, Drew, and their nine-year-old son, Aiden, and seven-year-old daughter,…


And then there was grief

From the Heart Mama said there would be days like this. Actually, Mama had no idea about these days. This is hard. As I navigate through the second week of…


Until things get better

From the Heart Once upon a time … Chicken Little was right. The sky is falling … or so it seems. On Thursday night, my girlfriends Joan Gamble, Linda Butler…



And then there was Grace

From the Heart One of the definitions of Grace is an act or instance of kindness, courtesy or clemency. Thursday was a clemency day for me. I was crossing the…


Life happens … and then what?

From the Heart Sometimes in life you are just walking along whistling and singing “merrily merrily merrily merrily, life is but a dream,” and then you turn left at the…


A bit of Audrey’s wisdom

From the Heart As you might have figured out by now, my mother would be one of the nicest ladies you would ever meet. She is also a force to…