by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 4, 2010 | Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond
Photo: fataetoile It's a dream…isn't it? Growing up, Easter meant stuffy and grandiose hallelujah choruses at the Baptist church, passionate sermons by red-faced preachers, ham feasts, overstuffed pastel-colored baskets, gleeful hunts for...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 2, 2010 | Art, Autism/Disability, Divorce
National Autism Awareness Month (AAM) kicked off yesterday and today is World Autism Awareness Day. This month I'm ramping up this blog's coverage on autism. In addition to my weekly Wednesday Autism/DisAbility posts, some of the time I'll be bleeding the...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Mar 22, 2010 | All The Rest of Life, Art, Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, H2H, Our Book, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
Goodbye 2009. That's right. Long-time Goodbye. It's the end of the third month of of the second decade of the new millennium, but I'm still saying Goodbye to the last. And that's because I'm Packing. Packing to leave this place. When I took this...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Mar 8, 2010 | Art, Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Nature, Spirituality
After she had opened the bounty of gifts we other mothers of children with autism had bought for her to re-establish her home–destroyed by Hurricane Katrina–Joyce wiped her tears and shared that she never understood those people on television…The...
