by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 20, 2012 | All The Rest of Life, Grief & Loss
Someone special left earth Monday night. I met Jim Newton when I was a whipper snapper still in college, a senior holding down my studies and commuting an hour from school to the 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville where I was the communications director for an...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 11, 2012 | All The Rest of Life, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
"Please. Let's not do this to each other." In an Oprah Magazine article by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, those are the words said by one mother to another when one mother watches the other organize a scavenger hunt and claims,...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Dec 29, 2011 | All The Rest of Life, Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Spirituality
Western Lake, Grayton Beach, Fla., Fall 2009, copyright: Leisa A. Hammett "I am aware, there is but One Life, I am this field of creative potential in all Its' power, glory and possibility. "I accept there is always a way to greater good. I act like it,...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Dec 4, 2011 | All The Rest of Life, Art, Autism/Disability, Motherhood, Nashville!, Obama/Politics
Dear Occupy Nashville, Thank you for fulfilling your civic duty, for telling your truth, for standing up for the little guys–most of us are they little guys. Thank you for being passionate, for being brave, for sacrificing for those of us who just cannot. Thank...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Nov 7, 2011 | All The Rest of Life, Divorce
If you drove by me topless between 2003 and 2004, then YOU'RE to blame! Now my English teacher friend corrected me for writing topless in the same sentence where I referenced driving my convertible. "Leisa, we must be clear that it was the car, not you, that...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 31, 2011 | All The Rest of Life, Art
Photo: Two Ghouls, 2010. You shoulda seen how they looked at us @ roadside Pops BBQ & Convenience Mart–near small-town Pulaski, Tenn.–when I paid for our gasoline. Wink….Today, beware of any witch-hatted women drivin' round in...
