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Monday, December 15, 2014 3:48:40 PM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled A Story of Love, Loss and Grace (especially grace):
LeAnne said, "I am not a dog person. I dislike getting licked and slobbered on. I cant stand yapping. When I see the toothpick legs of a skinny little Chihuahua everything in me wants to see how easily they will snap. (At such times, I carefully keep my hands..." more
Friday, December 5, 2014 9:41:23 AM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled When Your Students Succeed:
LeAnne said, "I once attended a one-day writing workshop. At the end of the day the leader asked us to visualize where we would like to be in ten-years time in our writing careers. He probably suggested a book signing as one possibility. By that time I had"
Wednesday, November 26, 2014 10:08:47 PM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled Blessings You Can't Wrap Your Arms Around:
LeAnne said, "For several years now, I have kept a Blessing Book by the bed to write down things Im thankful for. Some of my friends post something they are thankful for on FaceBook every day in November. Many Americans will share something they are thankful..." more
Friday, October 31, 2014 3:37:48 PM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled Holding Jesus' Hand:
LeAnne said, "A hard funeral this weekone of the hardest I ever attended. A Spiderman cap graced the tiny coffin. It doesnt take a very big box to hold a three-year-old. His dads auto shop was closed for the day. I heard that the employees of the only..." more
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 7:50:59 AM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled Yahweh, Show Your Power!:
LeAnne said, "In Valerie Comers fantasy novel Majai's Fury (reviewed here), Shanh, the Jonah-inspired character sent from his legalistically god-fearing culture to invite a sinful city to believe, calls on his god to protect him. Azhvah, show your power!..." more
Friday, September 5, 2014 9:04:04 AM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled Don't Become a Floating Convention Center:
LeAnne said, "We recently celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of my home church, Faith Missionary Church in Indianapolis, Indiana. I was a charter member at age thirteen, and FMC has been our largest supporting church over the years so there were lots of old..." more
Monday, August 25, 2014 10:35:16 AM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled Speculating on the Real World:
LeAnne said, "Were trying something new today. I have often told you about books I have been reading. This one really had me thinking about my own cultural perspective, and since it was written by a colleague in American Christian Fiction Writers and fellow..." more
Friday, July 18, 2014 3:59:28 PM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled Don't Get Distracted:
LeAnne said, "Jesus! the name high over all, in hell, or earth, or sky; Angels and men before it fall, and devils fear and fly. Jesus! the name to sinners dear, the name to sinners given; It scatters all their guilty fear, it turns their hell to..." more
Wednesday, July 9, 2014 10:43:17 PM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled Tigger Goes to a Funeral:
LeAnne said, "You dont usually see stuffed animals at a funeral, at least not funerals for men in their nineties. But Keith Hunt was unique. He was famous for reading Winnie the Pooh to college students using voices. You know what I mean: Poohs slow voice..." more
Monday, June 16, 2014 5:43:27 PM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled The Fault in our Stars or Ourselves?:
LeAnne said, "I read John Greens The Fault in Our Stars a couple years ago. (Another author I got to know through Calvin Colleges Festival of Faith and Writing. Even if you have never attended, the booklist on their site is a great place to pick up..." more
Monday, June 9, 2014 1:43:23 PM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled Second Thoughts on a Newbery Honor Book:
LeAnne said, "I picked up My Brother Sam is Dead because it is a Newbery Honor book and available from my library as an audio book. Tim and Sams father is Tory in this tale of the American Revolution. He just wants to be allowed to live his life and continue..." more
Monday, May 5, 2014 12:43:42 AM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled So What Is It You Do?:
LeAnne said, "Me in my office over the garage. Note the tea mug, cozy slippers and gas fireplace. Confession: I cleared the piles of paper off the desk before we took this. Stephanie Landsem invited me to participate in this Writing Process Blog..." more
Saturday, April 19, 2014 11:27:07 AM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled What Matters Most:
LeAnne said, "Spring has been slow to come to my part of the country. We received another twelve inches of snow during Holy Week. Weve been away from home, and I returned to find that the propane tank for the gas fire that heats my office had run out in my..." more
Monday, March 24, 2014 1:41:46 AM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled Betting on a Certainty:
LeAnne said, "Studying pharmacy was supposed to be Ann Browns ticket to lots of money and living the good lifenot to a remote mission hospital on the continent she swore never to even visit. But God had other plans. From a dysfunctional home in Australia..." more
Thursday, March 13, 2014 12:37:11 PM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled Faces of Real People:
LeAnne said, "This morning I reviewed the book A Muslim and a Christian in Dialogue by Badru D. Kateregga and David W. Shenk on Amazon. (Click the link and scroll down to read the review.) The authors are friends, academic colleagues and team-teachers of a..." more
Friday, February 28, 2014 2:08:27 AM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled Keeping Secrets sample chapter:
LeAnne said, "Prologue I remember what it was like Before. I flew over the ice like a swallow on the wind. Music filled my whole body, and I soared like a bird above the city of JohannesburgeGoliplace of gold. I dreamed of gold medals and going to the..." more
Friday, February 28, 2014 2:08:27 AM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled Living in History:
LeAnne said, "Osijek, Croatia, on the Drava River, has changed hands many times over the past few millennia. The Austro-Hungarians razed the city when they forced the Ottomans out, so what you see is late seventeenth to nineteenth century. My husband..." more
Friday, February 28, 2014 2:08:27 AM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled Not Wisconsin:
LeAnne said, "Beneath this square in the center of town is a modern shopping center where city government functioned during the Serbian bombardment in the 1990s war of independence. (The Cathedral is off to the left.) The fun part about staying for five..." more
Friday, February 28, 2014 2:08:27 AM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled Fairytale Anniversary:
LeAnne said, "My husband and I completed forty years of marriage in May. Knowing we would be in Croatia, we decided to wait and celebrate in Split on the Adriatic Sea. Well worth it! Fabulous time!"
Friday, February 28, 2014 2:08:26 AM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled A Park for HOW MANY Years???:
LeAnne said, "Ghosts and ghouls are not my thing so let's see more pictures instead. The city of Split, Croatia, sits on a peninsula on the Dalmatian Coast of the Adriatic Sea. On a recent visit to celebrate our fortieth wedding anniversary, my husband and I..." more
Friday, February 28, 2014 2:08:26 AM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled In the Footsteps of the Martyrs:
LeAnne said, "One day on our recent visit to Split, Croatia, we took a city bus to the late Roman city of Salona. Salona, a city of 70,000 people, was the birthplace of the future Emperor Diocletian in the fourth century. You can see the modern city of Silon..." more
Friday, February 28, 2014 2:08:26 AM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled Great Opportunity for All You Turkeys:
LeAnne said, "I've had a great time this past year working with Rob Skead on several YA manuscripts. (Not this one.) When he came up with this great idea for using his new digital picture book to raise funds for Feed America, I had to let you know. Here's..." more
Friday, February 28, 2014 2:08:26 AM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled Playing Photos:
LeAnne said, "When we moved to England in 1997, my dear friend Liz gave me lots of cuttings to start houseplants that brightened our new home. A bit of this and a snip of that. She loved the excuse to play plants, as she called it. Well, I love to play..." more
Friday, January 9, 2015 11:33:13 AM
LeAnne Hardy wrote a blog post titled Praying through Messiah:
LeAnne said, "Last December I was in New Haven, Connecticut, and attended a Messiah sing-along with the Yale concert choir and orchestra in their marvellous chapel. This fall I joined a local choral group to perform Handels Messiah with another regional choir..." more