by Leisa A. Hammett | May 27, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
Graduation, weekend before this last, was one of those moments. Magnified by 10. Grace graduated classic Grace style. In sharing in this post, The Little Drummer that Graduated Yesterday, about my daughter with autism's many antics during the ceremony, I...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 24, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
Graduation came and went. Nearly a week ago. And, I am still processing it all. The day. This milestone. Very slowly processing. Yet, perhaps not yet willing to take the time to full process it all. I've been working on my book this week. By the time this blog...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 21, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability
It was 1998 and we were a year into autism early intervention. What you did or didn't do beyond the standard speech/language, occupational and educational therapies was controversial. I found it all grueling. The rigor. The constancy. Where, I asked, was the...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 19, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!
About to turn 19, this girl/woman ~ graduated Metro Nashville Public School system yesterday. And she did so to the beat of a different drummer. The same drum beat into which she entered this world. A very different, odd, quirky, funky beat. And, in Classic...
