by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 24, 2014 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging
This post was scheduled to publish on Monday but did not until today, Thursday, because my blog's PLATFORM, Typepad, was attacked. (Meaning anyone who uses Typepad to host their blog heard crickets for about five days. Nada. It nothing personal to me, but...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 14, 2014 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!
Life is a series of graduations, and motherhood, even more so a myriad. Birth mothers graduate from a less complicated life to nine months of anticipation to caretaker of the minutiae ad nauseum of the newborn delight of their heart. Those wee ones graduate from the...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 8, 2014 | Art, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging
Promise you this: You're gonna laugh. You're gonna cry. And you're gonna be really, really sorry if you miss Nashville's Sat., April 26, 7PM TPAC Polk Theater premiere of "Listen to Your Mother." Nashville was one of 32 cities, nationwide,...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 24, 2014 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
Never was I one of those mothers who cried when they sent their baby(ies) off to nursery school. Okay. I confess, I winced a nanosecond, my eyes moistening. I stood on the other side of the open window, the thin, white curtain–trimmed in red, grosgrain...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 10, 2014 | Art, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature, Spirituality
A sentinel. She stands. Each morning, other side frigid window panes. A single, shriveled leaf borne, sole remains from bounty once red. Grey. Shorn of cover, rising grace. Sharing border of scalloped fence, crammed Cedar triplets, crowned with remnant of last snow...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 28, 2014 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!
A band of warriors will ascend Tennessee's Capitol Hill Wednesday. Some would say they are wounded warriors. Many are weary. And, I am one of them. It's annual DisAbility Day on the Hill. Nashville's major daily, The Tennessean, has nobly championed our...
