The heart and eyes of the Littles
From the Heart I’ve been a grandmother for over 20 years. I’ve often wondered … what are the littles thinking? Now I know. You see, when we were opening our…
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When life gets messy
From the Heart I’ve always said, “Mess with me, fine, mess with my kids, not so fine.” It does not matter that my kids are 40 and 36, they are…
A Christmas “come apart”
From the Heart I’ll be home for Christmas . . . if I make my connection in Atlanta with only a 45 minute lay-over. Yikes! I’m in sunny Tampa as…
Ponderings from my heart . . .
From the Heart It’s begin to look a lot like Christmas. Ever since the day after Christmas the Leonard Home has been filled with snowmen, Redbirds and lots of snow-tipped…
My forever sister/friend
From the Heart She has the voice of reason. She has the heart of a servant of the people. She has wisdom that comes from having lived amongst the real…
Benefit of the doubt
From the Heart I am not a morning person . . . especially on Mondays. When I hurried to work this past Monday, I just wanted to settle into the…
Finding a Fingerling
From the Heart Cabbage Patch Dolls, Hatchimals and Fingerlings, Oh my! Yes it is THAT time of year when parents and grandparents work themselves into a tizzy trying to find…
Grace said, Grace given
From the Heart I’ve been a mom for 40 years, a grandmother for 20 and a mother-in-law for 12 years. There is one thing that I have learned to give…
Butter up, family!
From the Heart For me, family dinners around the table are sacred. My reasons will be explained later in this column. So when Emily and I were in the dairy…
When Don called me . . .
From the Heart It was in March of 2014 when I was driving north on 37. I was on my way home after working at the dealership. I saw the…