by Leisa A. Hammett | Sep 15, 2013 | Art, Grief & Loss, Motherhood, Nashville!, Newtown, Obama/Politics
Monday, Sept. 16, 2013–A tired, VERY frustrated same-ol-same-ol ADDENDUM, to yesterday's post. Today's Washington, DC, ship-yard shooting suspect had a Texas concealed weapon permit. WHAT WILL IT TAKE, AMERICA?! Rising from the sad, sad, reality of the...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Aug 30, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging
I'm not going away. I'm just stepping back from this here. The blog, that is. It's a decision with which I've struggled for at least a year. To stop posting my regular, like clockwork, three-times a week on "The Journey with Grace" so...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Aug 25, 2013 | Art, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging
Holllywood apparently took an extended summer vacation. The only movies I caught at the cinema this summer season were children's. Some good. Some not so good. But Grace was happy. However, I was not in the sense that I missed that annual ritual of cooling off in...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Aug 21, 2013 | All The Rest of Life, Art, Nashville!
While Georgia touts the peach, (and we native South Carolinians know who's really the peach state,) Tennessee is the queen of the tomato scene. Why, here in hip Nashville, you know, the "It City," according to way-too-many media outlets now, we even have...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Aug 16, 2013 | All The Rest of Life, Art, Midlife and Beyond, Spirituality
Dustin Hoffman, in the video below, tears up repeatedly when he realizes what it's like to be a woman. This is something that every man should watch. I hope everyone will. It's three minutes. Just do it. (I know the women folks will. 😉
by Leisa A. Hammett | Aug 14, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Nashville!
A bit belated congratulations to Nina Cardona of Nashville NPR affiliate WPLN FM 90.3. Nina recently won a Tennessee Associated Press first place writing award for her Spring, 2012, story on my daughter, Grace Goad's art. I was really impressed with...
