by LeisaHammett | Nov 15, 2020 | All The Rest of Life, COVID-19, Grief & Loss, Obama/Politics, Spirituality
While most every liberal friend I knew was all knotted up, I remained calm in the days leading up to last week’s tenuous national election. But then my innards got all twisty post the election results from Saturday until we—me, myself and I—had a personal coming...
by LeisaHammett | Aug 21, 2018 | All The Rest of Life, Spirituality
I don’t have to take LSD, as hippies did in the 60s, to go mind tripping. I took a mind trip this morning, unaided by external substances. I allowed myself to get upset at how I interpreted someone behaved toward me. It was within a group situation and I started...
by LeisaHammett | Aug 10, 2018 | All The Rest of Life, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
“I don’t know how this story will end, but I do know in my heart of hearts that this Earth Journey is precious, heartbreaking, joyful, deep, rich, terrifying, traumatizing…and ultimately about how wide we can keep our Heart’s doors open while proclaiming...
by LeisaHammett | Jan 18, 2018 | All The Rest of Life, Midlife and Beyond, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging, Travel
Ten states in 10 days? Heck yeah, if you count that it took friend, Kate Ratliff, and I, three days, make that four, to cross Texas. Since I last posted, cough, in September, Grace and I’ve been back to Grayton Beach, Fla., and in late December, I traveled with...
by LeisaHammett | Jun 20, 2015 | All The Rest of Life, Art, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Nashville!, Obama/Politics, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging
It’s now two days after many of us awakened with the news of the Charleston racially motivated mass shooting that claimed, among them, a senator’s life and took place in a beautiful historic African American church while its innocent and unaware and...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jul 15, 2014 | All The Rest of Life, Art, Nashville!
Have you heard? Nashville loves food! Nashville has become a town of foodies, among other things. Long before national media named us the “IT CITY,”—a moniker that makes us both puff with pride and tremble a little about what we may become after everyone...
