by Leisa A. Hammett | May 12, 2010 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood, Spirituality
To another special needs mother-writer, I once joked about writing a piece entitled: "They stared bad." She choked, almost spitting out the sweet southern iced tea she was sipping as we waited for the arrival of our lunch order. If you have a special...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 6, 2010 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Nashville Flood, Nature, Spirituality
by Leisa A. Hammett, www.LeisaHammett.comOutside and overhead, we could hear the circling clop-clop of television news station helicopters and the occasional zoom of Vanderbilt Medical University LifeFlights. Inside we were trapped in a surreal universe, disconnected...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 5, 2010 | Art, Autism/Disability, H2H, Our Book
On Friday night, we partied, as celebrated below. But come Saturday morning, the rains began. They didn't stop until Sunday night. My attempt to pre-publish Monday's post (as I did this one and Friday's) was thwarted when we lost power Sunday...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 28, 2010 | Art, Autism/Disability, H2H, Our Book
Apologies to subscribers, this was accidentally published on Sunday. You may be receiving this for a second time as a result. Perhaps it was listening to Kelley dish on Oprah that distracted me….Information regarding the canceled event, last graph, has been...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 23, 2010 | Art, Autism/Disability
There's no coincidence that "The Journey with Grace" is one-third autism/disAbility and one-third arts. Few people who know me at this point in my life are aware that I graduated from an arts high school. They are unaware because I left a lifetime of...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 21, 2010 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, H2H, Our Book, Motherhood, Nature, Spirituality, Travel
A British human rights journalist and horse trainer, his American wife–a university professor of psychology–and their son with autism "do something crazy." They travel across the world and ride horseback across Mongolia seeking a shamanic...
