by Leisa A. Hammett | Jun 29, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Nashville!, Technology/Blogging
My cozy intown writer's hideaway, Nashville Public Library. Photo: ©LeisaHammett.com, taken with my Droid camera phone and happily doctored with Pixlr-o-matic app–my latest down-time joyful "rest" obsession. Until my senior year in college, a lap...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jun 27, 2012 | Midlife and Beyond, Nashville!
Good Morning, Gorgeous! And, hello again to another in my June (my birthday month) series on transforming our attitudes about aging. Early March, I attended a seminar honoring women and Dale Smith Thomas was the opening key note speaker. The first words from her lips...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jun 25, 2012 | Midlife and Beyond, Nature
Turning 60, says the iconic Cybil Shepherd, on Oprah, was a turning point. "You decide what's really important in your life. "Now that she's older, Cybill says her definition of real beauty has changed. 'If we don't work to develop that depth...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jun 21, 2012 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
As I’m writing this, I’m sitting in the dentist’s office waiting room. Grace, my teen daughter with autism, has been called back. I’m listening to the mostly unintelligible moans turned screams of an elementary school-aged boy, who, at the glance I stole when he...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jun 19, 2012 | Art, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature, Spirituality
She's a beautiful woman. She's amazing. She's the kind of mother-superwoman, whom, in our hearts, many of us would aspire to become. She's the president of the PTSA, she's a diplomat, she speaks before the board, serves on every committee,...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jun 15, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
The Energizer Bunny ran out of batteries. Duh. And, I knew better. May came, the third art exhibit was hung, I went away for a private five day writer's retreat and I came back. Exhausted. The day after my return I went to my beloved gyn-nurse practitioner and...
