by Leisa A. Hammett | May 12, 2011 | Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Nashville!
"Can you feel joy amid pain? I say: Yes. Definition of bittersweet." –May 5 at 9:45am tweet via HootSuite –LeisaHammett Phillip Moffitt, former entrepreneur turned Esquire magazine owner and editor-in-chief turned spiritual teacher spoke at...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 21, 2011 | Art, Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, H2H, Our Book, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
"igbok" is the brainchild of uber talented and nice guy artist-painter David Arms of Nashville. Previous posts referencing igbok are here, here, here, here, here, here, here.
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 26, 2011 | Autism/Disability, Divorce, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Obama/Politics, Spirituality
Assumption Number One: Yes, I've been Divorced. No, he was not/is not a scoundrel. No, I was not left Desperate. Destitute. Or, Deeply Depressed from The Big D. We had a healthy, peaceful, professionally mediated Divorce. We conducted ourselves like adults...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jul 15, 2010 | All The Rest of Life, Art, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Travel
Photo: Port Orford, Ore., three months into our relationship…As our sister B&B guest and new friend snapped this photo she chanted: "Ya'll are gettin' married…." Yeah. We knew it then….Three years ago from this past May, the...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jul 8, 2010 | Autism/Disability, Divorce, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
Three generations of our new home. Photo taken MLK Weekend, 2010, Chattanooga 3-D Aquarium's IMAX Theater. WELCOME to Dee & Leisa's Grand Adventure! Starring Dee and Leisa and Ruth, the wacky 83-year-old in-law of Leisa, and mother of Dee, plus, an...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jul 6, 2010 | Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond
Blond, bespeckled and of calm demeanor, she greeted me as I walked through the doors of the furniture store. In the 10 years since I last purchased furniture, we had traded places in a sense, or at least now I was the one who sported 5-0. She had lost her husband and...
