by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 8, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Spirituality
My writing mentor/coach, Portland, Ore.-based Charlotte Rains Dixon–whom I met through Middle Tennessee State University's Writer's Loft–tagged me to participate in a blog hop about my next book. She was tagged, then she tagged me and some other...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 1, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood
They come and go. These people, in and out of our lives. A constant, steady stream. When my daughter was scheduled for an evaluation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Child Development Center, the form asked if we wanted psychological support. Blessedly, I...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 25, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
The juiciest, most voracious years of my life for loosing myself in between the pages of a library's worth of books were in my mid-20s when I rode the bus and train from the suburb of Stone Mountain to midtown Atlanta. Followed by the years I spent cumulative...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 21, 2013 | All The Rest of Life, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
So, here's the deal. For a long time I've had more figured out about the autism parenting journey than I have had about other parts of my life. The last two-and-a-half years have been my wake-up-punch-in-the-face after falling ever so flat and hard on said...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 18, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
Bowls of black-eyed peas, mixed with corn, tomatoes, green chiles, kale and garlic immersed in chicken and vegetable broth steamed before us. It was the dinner hour of New Years Day and Grace and I had returned from our separate post Christmas holidays. The phone...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 9, 2013 | All The Rest of Life, Art, Autism/Disability, Obama/Politics, Travel
Straight up interstate 65 about three hours north in Kentucky, my companion and I rang in the New Year in the land of Mitch McConnell. Ha. It may also become the congressional homeland of Ashley Judd. Ahem. The highlight of our trip to the quaint, southern-charmed...
