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 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,...
by LeisaHammett | May 11, 2015 | Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
Mother’s day. This year’s Hallmark celebration came and went. And, my own Mother’s been gone for seven years now. Oddly, I feel closer to her now than I may have ever felt when she was living. That’s due mostly to the shifts within me. I spoke...
by LeisaHammett | Apr 27, 2015 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood, Spirituality
Funny how time renders perspective. Even a different way of looking at things once held as definitive truth and “the way.” The “right” way. I now get it. I totally get why that older mom was so miffed and would mouth off against research versus...
