Dear young Janet
It’s 1974, and you just graduated from Noblesville High School. Oh, do I have things to tell you! Some things you won’t appreciate until much later. You will often say,…
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The Great Purge of 2025
It was time. I took a deep breath and opened the closet door. Janet, you can do this! And so, the great PURGE of 2025 began. Stay with me on…
Celebrating a 37-year calling
By JANET HART LEONARD For The Reporter What if God calls you to a place you never imagined living and doing something you never imagined doing, yet so perfect you…
Finding joy in the quiet
To be quiet … not to be distracted by the noise of the day. It’s not just about silence. Joy can be found in the quiet if we are deliberate…
The Silent Saturday
Did you know the day between Good Friday and Easter is often called Silent Saturday? There is so much to learn in the silence of Saturday. It is both sacred…
About that plastic knife
When we are born, we are given a blank canvas. Over the years, colors are added. At times, the colors are soft and pretty. Other times, they are harsh and…
Livin’ a sermon
My mom loved people well. I watched her. When I was a child, my mother would place her pointer finger sideways against her lips to tell me I needed to…
Let them.
I never knew two words could be so powerful until I said and believed them. Let them not like me. Let them believe what they want about me. Let them…
Not THAT far . . .
13,733 steps equal almost seven miles. Do you remember when I wrote in my column last week about walking 13,733 steps from the Glen Eyrie Castle to the Garden of…
Going to the castle
Dreams really do come true. Once upon a time, a little girl dreamed of going to a castle. At the age of 10, she watched the movie Cinderella and sang…