by Leisa A. Hammett | Nov 16, 2011 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood, Nashville!
Tomorrow night I will do something I do six times a year. I will stand before a room of parents, grandparents, teachers and other greater Nashville community members. I will follow an hour presentation by a speech therapist, a psychologist–by...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Nov 9, 2011 | Autism/Disability
"Look! There's our silver lining." My friend pointed to the blackened sky, the full moon hidden by swollen clouds yet rimming their tops in silver. It was Saturday night and I'd driven The Divorce Mobile, top down–my friend riding shot...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Nov 2, 2011 | Art, Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, H2H, Our Book, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Spirituality
From a Facebook discussion on this "Journey with Grace" post: The Language of Loss: Putting Grief Into Words, featuring grief writing retreat leader/author Amy Lyles Wilson: "Grief is that which surpasses words…the deepest groans of our hearts....
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 28, 2011 | Art, Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Nashville!, Spirituality
October days in Nashville can be surprisingly toasty but forthcoming winter breezes whisk away the humidity. It was such a day nearly eight years ago. I stood in line at an author's booth at our city's annual beloved and acclaimed Southern Festival of Books. I...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 26, 2011 | Autism/Disability, Spirituality
"The Journey with Grace" featured mother-daughter "awetistics" Gayle Lee and Lyrica Marquez in June, 2011 when their beautiful coffee table book premiered in Nashville. I noshed on its' meaty contents all summer. And now so can you via the...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 21, 2011 | Art, Autism/Disability, Travel
GraceArt goes Soho. On Thurs., October 27, 2011, the art work of my daughter, Grace Goad, will be in a show at the Soho Digital Art Gallery. She is one of several artists with autism featured in the exhibit, "THE ART OF AUTISM, An Art Show Featuring Artists on...
