by LeisaHammett | Jun 20, 2015 | All The Rest of Life, Art, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Nashville!, Obama/Politics, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging
It’s now two days after many of us awakened with the news of the Charleston racially motivated mass shooting that claimed, among them, a senator’s life and took place in a beautiful historic African American church while its innocent and unaware and...
by LeisaHammett | Jun 17, 2015 | Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
Making friends. Playdates. Sleepovers. Birthday parties. Rites of childhood, true? Not so much. Not for everyone. Not for my daughter. One of the things I grieved most in her growing up years was how her brain disorder impaired her socially and communicatively,...
by LeisaHammett | Jun 10, 2015 | Midlife and Beyond, Uncategorized
“The Journey with Grace,” my blog, is seven years old this November. Each year, come June 10, I’ve written a “happy birthday to me” post. So, Happy Double Nickel Birthday to me. I’m halfway through my fifth decade now, and as my...
by LeisaHammett | Jun 4, 2015 | Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
What was I thinking 18 years ago? What did I think this Now I am living would be like? Last weekend, I sat on a park bench with tears suddenly forming rivers down my face as I watched my friend, once again, interrupt our conversation to run after her special needs son...
by LeisaHammett | May 28, 2015 | Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature, Spirituality
It is possible to be physically present in nature but not be present in the one “Now” moment that nature encourages. I recall the time I walked the length of Radnor Lake, and only at the end did I realize I’d not been present in the beauty...
by LeisaHammett | May 21, 2015 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Uncategorized
The veteran parents warned us newbies that we’d soon get a rude shock and it would be followed by a series of shocks throughout the growing up years of our sons and daughters with autism. If we were lucky enough to receive a diagnosis before the age of three,...
