by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 18, 2011 | Art, Autism/Disability, Nashville!
Oops! The cat was out of the bag. In personal meeting a year ago, a usually ultra buttoned lipped Vanderbilt Kennedy Center staffer let it slip: Blythe Corbett may be coming to Nashville. All I knew about this former UCLA pediatric neuropsychology...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 16, 2011 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Spirituality
There's a reason why the autism community logo is a puzzle piece. Actually there's a number of reasons, but one of them being that there is a myriad of puzzle pieces to this life of disAbility. And while the puzzle piece also signifies the remaining enigma of...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 9, 2011 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging
The blogging conference session was tagged "Advocates and Activists: Harnessing Social Media for Social Good in the Face of Compassion Fatigue." I slipped into the back of the room. Late. I assumed I'd hear about India. Haiti….I was curious, but I...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 7, 2011 | Autism/Disability, Nashville!, Obama/Politics, Spirituality
On the first Friday of February, a night of deep-black sky and a rude, coat-clutching chill, my heart was bathed in warm, joy-infused love as I attended my first commitment ceremony. photo: cancunlover15 This is Nashville. Never. Ever. Ever. Short on musical talent....
by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 2, 2011 | Autism/Disability, Motherhood
In the Urban Forest of our local park, Mama Bear [that would be me] was walking six paces behind her cub. Said cub was peddling the strangest of bikes on the paved track. A three-wheeled contraption. An adult-sized trike. Manufactured for cubs like my own who, because...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 31, 2011 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood, Nashville!, Nature
It's the end of January and this morning I crashed. Except for a driving compulsion to sit next to windows when I entered dark restaurants, I was never aware of seasonal affect disorder until my daughter was diagnosed with autism. Then, I became acutely aware of...
