LeAnne Hardy

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Why Can't the World Be More Like Disney?

May 13, 2013

Tags: Disney World, Florida, friendliness, America, Brazil, LeAnne Hardy




Our day in the Magic Kingdom starts.
There are no strangers in Disneyworld; only friends you haven’t met yet. On a recent visit, our six-year-old grand daughter Bella made friends on the bus, at the pool, in line, waiting for fireworks. But it wasn’t just Bella; there is an atmosphere of friendliness everywhere you turn. I commented to my (more…)

To the Girls

April 18, 2013

Tags: Tudor Hall, Park Tudor School, reunion, friendship, LeAnne Hardy




The crown is from our school crest, and
table decorations a throw back to our junior prom.
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There is something about friends who have known you for a long time. They aren’t impressed. You can’t pretend. You can’t hide behind a practiced adult persona. They know. They have seen you in your social awkwardness. They witnessed your adolescent tactlessness and clumsy sins. You can't hide and there is something very freeing about that.

We are older now--women who have (more…)

Death Before Resurrection

March 29, 2013

Tags: Good Friday, Easter, Before the Fruit is Ripened in the Sun, Thomas Troeger, LeAnne Hardy

Some time during Holy Week--maybe it was Sunday afternoon when the crowd was still cheering their Messiah--Jesus warned his disciples of his coming death.

“The hour has come for (more…)

To Blog or Not To Blog

March 18, 2013

Tags: blogging, LeAnne Hardy


I started blogging in August 2007. Every writer is supposed to have a blog. “It’s how you maintain contact with your readers,” someone had told me at the Cape Town Book Fair a couple weeks before. “You write about little things that strike you during the day.” I couldn’t imagine anyone wanting to (more…)

Heart-of-the-matter Fiction

March 1, 2013

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Sharon Souza's Unraveled starts slowly (way too much background in chapter one and a bit too much general niceness in the early chapters), but wow! when it gets going!

Sharon describes her writing as “heart-of-the-matter fiction with a good dose of humor.” The humor in this case comes from the quirky voice of Aria Winters (more…)

To my Valentine

February 15, 2013

Tags: Valentine, love, husband

It’s Valentine’s Day as I write. The table is set. Okay, so the plates are plastic from Target. At least they’re red. I finished the runner this week. The menu is planned and everything prepped. My husband and I have been married almost forty years, but he is still my best (more…)

The Problem of Pain in a Modern Thriller

February 1, 2013

Tags: Congo, warlords, corruption, Congo Dawn, Jeanette Windle, Windle, book review, problem of pain, LeAnne Hardy



Jeanette Windle’s books just keep getting better. I reviewed her Afghanistan series in the past. Her latest, Congo Dawn, is being released this week. It's set in the former Belgian Congo, Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness.” Whether that darkness is local or colonial, Conrad leaves in doubt, and Windle picks up this theme in a thriller (more…)

Redemption in the Movies

January 11, 2013

Tags: Les Miz, Les Miserables, the Hobbit, Tolkien, Peter Jackson, Javert, Jean Valjean, movie, film, stage play, music, movie review, LeAnne Hardy


I saw two movies this Christmas season—The Hobbit and Les Miserables. I had mixed feelings about The Hobbit. Peter Jackson seems to have lost sight of the fact that the extreme success of Lord of the Rings was at least in part due to the (more…)

Praying for Change

December 21, 2012

Tags: Newtown, CT, prayer, ACTS, gun violence, Feast of the Holy Innocents, December 28, National confession, LeAnne Hardy

This isn't exactly a Christmas blog either, but if we're going to spend extra time in prayer on the twenty-eighth of December, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, as I suggested earlier this week, how shall we pray? We want to see solutions to the problem of gun violence in America. Here are some suggestions for using the ACTS format—adoration, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication.

Adoration
We begin by praising God for (more…)

And Ever Mourn and Say

December 19, 2012

Tags: Christmas, Newtown, CT, Herod the Great, Holy Innocents, Coventry Carol, Mark Hayes, LeAnne Hardy


This is not the first time that tragedy struck at Christmas. Two thousand years ago a psychopath who killed his wife and three sons, heard that his royal position might be in danger from a peasant baby. He wasn’t a pagan; he consulted Bible scholars to find out where this king was. When (more…)

Selected Works

Glastonbury Grail Series
Book 1. A tale of the Holy Grail and the tumultuous England of King Henry VIII
Book 2. Colin returns to Wales with the ancient olivewood cup. But why does it show none of the supernatural power it displayed in Glastonbury?
Juvenile Fiction
Ben will be dead meat if the guys find out what he's doing at the ice rink in the early mornings.
It’s never fun to be different, and Brazilian–born Cristina Larson feels very different.
Despite the war, Keri’s parents wouldn’t let anything really bad happen to her... would they?
Who will take care of Lindiwe when her sick mother passes?
Picture Book
God is like many things in a small African boy’s world—the wind, a rock, even his mother.

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