by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 30, 2012 | All The Rest of Life, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging
The hoo-la over the diagnosis of the Queen of Fat & Sugar, Culinary Marketing Guru, Paula Deen, with Type-2 diabetes has simmered down a bit in the last week. I guess. At risk of sounding self-righteous: I really don't know because I rarely flick on the boob...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 28, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood, Spirituality
In theaters now, two movies highlight Asperger's syndrome. Viewed last weekend, Joyful Noise, alone, didn't charm enough with it's fun, fabulous music, and tender plot to demand anything other than a blurb on Facebook. But last night's take on...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 23, 2012 | All The Rest of Life, Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
It'd been nearly 10 years since I met up with my friend from the small, informal playgroup in which we were both members when our children were babes. Long ago she'd moved to Western North Carolina. When I vacationed in Asheville last summer, we shared a meal...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 20, 2012 | All The Rest of Life, Grief & Loss
Someone special left earth Monday night. I met Jim Newton when I was a whipper snapper still in college, a senior holding down my studies and commuting an hour from school to the 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville where I was the communications director for an...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 18, 2012 | Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
grace n A favor rendered. A[n…] immunity or exemption; a reprieve. Divine love and protection bestowed freely […]. The state of being protected […]. Suddenly….Life as I'd known it somersaulted up into the air,...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 16, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging
…This is the blog post that once upon a time I dreaded writing. Back last early June when I moved out of the house I shared with Husband 2.0, I dreaded the thought of coming here and posting this very personal and once very painful news. And then, over the...
