by Leisa A. Hammett | Aug 12, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
I got it. As I drove out of the lot, my car dwarfed by the yellow school buses in the school district bus lot, I realized that I'd move a mountain for my child. Hell, yes. And a little while later, I plugged into the energy of my other mothering friends who also...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Aug 9, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
"[Equanimity] is the ability to stay present with our situation without reactivity, or if we do react, to see it and stop feeding it. If we experience a loss, for instance, meeting the pain of that loss with equanimity doesn’t mean we don’t feel the pain....
by Leisa A. Hammett | Aug 7, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!
This summer, when Grace was not in a camp (Full Circle, Easter Seals, ESY-extended school year-Talker Camp, and her beloved South Carolina-based Camp PhiPhi,) or her summer job at Goodwill, art therapy, or her very last semester of therapeutic horseback riding before...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Aug 5, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Spirituality
“The days are long, the years are short.” NYT best-selling author Gretchin Rubin made famous that quote in her popular book, The Happiness Project. Spot on. I tried to put my finger on just that sentiment the many years of Grace’s younger days. I had...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Aug 1, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!
Today is the first day of school for Metro Nashville Public Schools in Davidson County. Today, August 1. Sixteen years we've been in the system, as Grace began autism early intervention in the district's special education preschool program when she was three....
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jul 31, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Nashville!
Tomorrow, my recent high school graduate, now 19, will be picked up by a school bus for a regular school length day and travel downtown and back at the end of the day. By federal law, students with disAbilities who do not graduate with a general education academic...
