by Leisa A. Hammett | Nov 3, 2010 | Art, Autism/Disability, Spirituality
GraceArt, the artwork of my 16-year-old daughter, Grace Walker Goad, who has autism, is featured on the 2010 November cover–off the presses Monday–of The American Journal of Psychiatry. Three distinquished Vanderbilt Medical University faculty...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 20, 2010 | Art, Autism/Disability
"Green & Yellow" by Grace Walker Goad. Available for purchase. For the sixteenth consecutive year, work by local artists with disabilities is showcased in the exhibit “Creative Expressions XVI.” The annual art exhibit offers artists with disabilities an...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 13, 2010 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood
Photo: Eric Skiff Ssssh. Life is Good. We are happy. Just as there's sweet, there's also a hint of bitter. Sleep is needed. Sleep is interrupted. Sometimes sleep does not come for hours. And hours. Tummies are hungry and words cannot communicate. Sometimes the...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 1, 2010 | Autism/Disability
So many people have commented about this Facebook album photo from our recent wedding, I decided to post it here. I could write about it, but I'm going to let the visual do the talking. Photo by Bill Bangham; Husband 2.0 and my daughter Grace.
by Leisa A. Hammett | Sep 29, 2010 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss
The house is quiet except the rapid thud and clack my fast-moving fingers make on the laptop keyboard. I should be in bed, but after a weekend of ignoring this machine, it's catch-up time. Three days worth of unanswered emails and I find myself angry. Having just...
