by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 10, 2011 | Art, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
Disclosure: Recently, about a dozen Nashville-area bloggers and I were the guests of Hallmark's "Moments Between the Milestones" national tour. Yes, they were hawking a product line, but they do it. Oh. So. Well. I was gifted some goodies from the...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 5, 2011 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
My 17-year-old skips down a sidewalk in the middle of Vanderbilt University. Ironically, it's the very campus we drove to daily for many years of grueling early autism intervention. That was then. This is now. And seeing her like that there, the word that lit up...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 3, 2011 | Art, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Spirituality
They're gone now, you know. Both of them. Their house was sold. Their estate has been settled. Their lovelies–furniture energy-rich with love and lore–was divided, moved and now adorns our respective homes. And now we are left to sort our inner worlds....
by Leisa A. Hammett | Sep 5, 2011 | All The Rest of Life, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness." — Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth Tornadoes, tsunamis, hurricanes, droughts and other natural and man-enduced disasters; record heat;...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Aug 31, 2011 | Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
The sun is smiling, reaching us through the slats of our open blinds. It begs us to get up, out and start this precious last weekend day. It's nearly noon. But my long-legged daughter with autism is still swaddled in a purple comforter, asleep on her bed. I go to...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Aug 29, 2011 | Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond
Decades before we labeled parents "single mother" and "single father," when his beautiful wife, Hettie, died, Arthur Walker–or "Papa"–as we called him, was a single father to eight children. My mother was the next to youngest,...
