by Leisa A. Hammett | Dec 18, 2010 | Art, Autism/Disability
"Sunshine," by Grace Walker Goad Grace's drawing, above, is displayed at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, near the Polk Theater entrance, downtown Nashville, until January 7, 2011. It can easily be spotted before or after a show or during...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Dec 12, 2010 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss
November 2010 crept in and then out again quietly. The previous November was not so quite for Rebekah Pope and myself as photographer and producer/author, respectively, of From Heartache to Hope: Middle Tennessee Families Living with Autism. Featured...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Dec 10, 2010 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Nature, Spirituality, Travel
In Hitchhiking With Larry David, author Paul Samuel Dolman spends a sultry summer in Martha's Vineyard nursing a heartbreak, which he subsequently distills and slathers onto the pages of his second book in a unique healing balm of words ripe and rich with humor,...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Dec 3, 2010 | Art, Obama/Politics
I did not want to see this movie. When the blaring previews subsided and the film began, I constructed a plan to slip out of the theater and go to the movie I thought Husband 2.0, I and our friend had agreed to see. The one that Husband 2.0 and I'd...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Nov 26, 2010 | Art
Morisot, Le Bereau @ The Birth of Impressionism, Frist Center In one word: Light. The Frist Center for Visual Arts impressionist exhibit is about light. The exhibit IS light. Good art, to use the woo-woo way of saying things, can open one's heart chakra. Woo-woo...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Nov 19, 2010 | Art
Carolina cousin and rising Americana music star Angela Easterling performs, above, at The Basement with back-up Will Kimbrough, at last years's Americana Music Festival. Photo: Leisa A. Hammett Country California liked my Americana rising star cousin Angela...
