by Leisa A. Hammett | Aug 28, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
“You see, the big thing for me is to love reality and not live in the imagination, not live in what could have been or what should have been or what can be, and somewhere, to love reality and then discover that God is present.” ~ Jean Vanier, founder,...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Aug 19, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss
"You need to use the 'A' Card! I'm serious!" I said it again. Between laughs she asked what was the 'A' Card." "It's when you say, my child is 'autistic.' (It's one of the few times I suspend PeopleFirst language...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Aug 12, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
I got it. As I drove out of the lot, my car dwarfed by the yellow school buses in the school district bus lot, I realized that I'd move a mountain for my child. Hell, yes. And a little while later, I plugged into the energy of my other mothering friends who also...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Aug 9, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
"[Equanimity] is the ability to stay present with our situation without reactivity, or if we do react, to see it and stop feeding it. If we experience a loss, for instance, meeting the pain of that loss with equanimity doesn’t mean we don’t feel the pain....
by Leisa A. Hammett | Aug 3, 2013 | Grief & Loss, Motherhood, Nashville!, Travel
  I am friends with the playwrights and others associated with the theater. This is not a personal Kickstarter campaign but one that I support. Dontate here, only 4 days left to help make this a reality:...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jul 29, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Spirituality
From his active Facebook persona and well-established blog, I knew that author Robert Rummel-Hudson was a bit edgy. And, (my bad,) I'd never heard of the author until he appeared on a Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson panel of parents discussing augmentive assistive...
