by Leisa A. Hammett | Jun 24, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood, Spirituality
Grateful am I for the local blogging community and once-local annual conference, Blissdom, which tutored me into the blogosphere. That’s where I met the beautiful and gentle-spirited artist/jewelry artisan Lisa Leonard, whom I’ve long featured in my...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jun 21, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
Wow! With a shock I realized this week that we are half-way through our summer. The new Metro Schools' summer. You know. The one where the parents were allowed to vote on year-round school and they voted "no," and the system decided to do it anyway by...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jun 14, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
There she goes. Just as captured in this picture last night. Grace's speed tends to be break neck and then at other times draggin'-her-feet-slow. Last night, as you see, was the former. That is, last night–the end of the first day of her 19th year. And...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jun 10, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
Happy Monday and Happy Birthday. To. Me! Today I am 50-plus-three. And, here goes my annual "Journey with Grace" post on turning a year older….About 10 years ago, my quintessential Southern lady friend, Patsy, who always wore her long, blond hair...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 29, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Spirituality
Descending down the long-tall escalator at one of our local cinemas the other night, my friend and I glided by the guragantuan movie posters. We chuckled at the silly characters, such as the one-eyed, green monster wearing braces who was so ugly he was cute. Passing...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 27, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
Graduation, weekend before this last, was one of those moments. Magnified by 10. Grace graduated classic Grace style. In sharing in this post, The Little Drummer that Graduated Yesterday, about my daughter with autism's many antics during the ceremony, I...
