by Leisa A. Hammett | Jun 9, 2011 | Midlife and Beyond
The color was cocoa. The edges were fringed with mini-lilac-colored pom-poms. I didn't need it. It was Christmastime and I shoulda been polishing off my Christmas list. But I wanted it. And as I pondered my indulgent purchase later I thought: Scarves!...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jun 7, 2011 | Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond
by Mary Oliver One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice– though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. "Mend my life!" each voice cried. But...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 11, 2011 | Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Spirituality
photo: net_efekt, which first appeared on this blog here. The early spring air was unkindly cool as I gingerly slogged across a soggy post-storm yard to the mail box. Trees, grass, flowers announced the turn from winter. A large black BMW pulled out of my...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Mar 28, 2011 | Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
Photo: Mishelle Lane of "Secret Agent Mama." In her youth, Sarah was a beauty queen. Once I saw her Furman University pageant picture. A full hour-glass figure in a modest, aqua, one piece-polyester swim suit. As I stood at the front of the church sanctuary...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Mar 21, 2011 | Art, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
I forget she's there. But, she reminds me. Several times a day. Suddenly she changes positions. Thumping the walls made tender by her presence. She's curled up inside me. Fetal position. Tucked inside my heart. Sadness is her name. She's grieving the loss...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Mar 15, 2011 | All The Rest of Life, Art, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond
Both my parents left us three daughters in the cold clutch of Winter. Thus, the food that generously arrived on my eldest sister's kitchen counter did so warmly, containing multiple ingredients of Comfort. My folks, we are of the South. And we bear the heavy...
