by LeisaHammett | Feb 13, 2015 | Art, Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!
“What is it about what I’ve said that’s upsetting to you?” There was an awkward pause in our conversation. I looked up to the ceiling, sniffed, and then reached across the kitchen table and grabbed a tissue to blot the tear that had just...
by LeisaHammett | Nov 20, 2014 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood, Spirituality
Today, Christine Mather, writer and theater educator, returns here, to “The Journey with Grace,” sorting aloud “the tragedies and controversies besieging the autism community.” Christine thought this post was too off-topic for her blog, Autism...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jul 9, 2014 | Art, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!
A warm-ish late February, 2014, was fading into March when 80 women and one man auditioned for Nashville's inaugural cast of Listen to You Mother. Thirteen of us were chosen to share the stage in voicing our experiences of motherhood, having a mother, choosing not...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jun 25, 2014 | Art, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!
Through the building's glass walls, the greenscape of Atlanta back dropped our meeting. Around the table sat architects, interior designers, builders, and developers. There, in their midst, I had one of those moments: part "AHA!" Part warm fuzzy. One...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jun 3, 2014 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!
A small, rainbow-colored glass magnet attaches her picture to the side of our fridge. The photo freeze frames her donning a graduation hat, perched slightly crooked with a large bobby pin securing a cowlick-y clump of hair near the backside of her head. The girl in...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 11, 2014 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality, Travel
Blush. My daughter, Grace, turns 20 in one month. And Easter weekend was the first time the two of us ever took off on our own together. Not for a winding interstate trip through the mountains to our South Carolina family. Just us two on an adventure, the destination,...
