by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 10, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!
THIS is what it's going to take folks! Especially here in state disAbility-services poor, Tennessee: entrepreneurship, as demonstrated by young adult Leo Kennedy, who's written his first book, Devin and the Greedy Ferret...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 8, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
Today I'm back over at MusicCityMoms.net. I'm talking about the labels heaped on special needs children and more specifically, their moms. And, then, what's the difference between. You. And. Me? Join me in considering the difference…or lack thereof....
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 1, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Motherhood, Nashville Flood
I'm stealing this story. Totally. It's a story of a mother and father of a child with a milder disAbility that attends a public school "blended" classroom of students, some of whom have more significant disAbilities and some who are typically...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Mar 31, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature, Spirituality
"Happy Resurrection from Fear to Love, from grief to joy, from ego to Field, from separation to Unity. You are Loved and kept in the Light." Photo & quote originally published last, and a much warmer Easter, April 8, 2012. An Easter message...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Mar 29, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
"I know there's a lesson here." I realized there was a lesson in the frustrating experience I was having and that realization came just as I said those words. It took me a while and a talk with my spiritual teacher, to whom I said those words, to know...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Mar 22, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!
I walked to my car, keys in hand, my vision blurring with the moisture of tears. A woman had come up behind us in the checkout line and bumped the counter, causing her soup to slosh and spill a dollop. Busy with my order, the clerk didn't notice. So I offered to...
