by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 16, 2012 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
More thoughts on making peace with public perceptions of disAbility differences. (Written as a Facebook response to another special needs mother, much younger than I and newer to the Journey): Special needs parents have the challenge of not only dealing with the...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 9, 2012 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood
All the axioms are true and apply: I'm a work in progress. | Aren't we all? | Grief is a process. Then there's disAbility grief. A form of grief that never ends. If dealt with, it lessens. It diminishes. But, because there is no death, no making a...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 4, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Nashville!
"The only thing that remains the same is change!" My nurse practitioner, Sally, would cackle after she'd spout those too-true and sage words each time I'd visit her during my seemingly never-ending years of perimenopause. I've hit menopause now...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 1, 2012 | Autism/Disability, Motherhood, Nashville!
Today is moving day (to our new condo) and that's a twist and turn of a story that I will be sharing here about a year from now. And the details on the why will forthcome then. Seriously. In virtual time, however, I'm over at Vanderbilt Children's...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Sep 27, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Travel
One way to get to Athens, Tenn., where Grace had an art show in April at the McMinn County Living Heritage Museum, is to travel down I-24 from Nashville through Chattanooga town and then up toward Knoxville. Athens is somewhere out there in between. The first Sunday...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Sep 25, 2012 | Autism/Disability
We are not broken. We who have disAbilities…or DIFFabilities…such as my daughter… We. Are. Not. Broken. Like all of us, she–my daughter–is a child of God. How could something of divine lineage be broken? Like all of us, she brings Gifts...
