by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 22, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Motherhood, Nashville!
Come follow me today over to MusicCityMoms.net. Some of you readers may remember back in the day, (from 2007 to 2011,) I was a moderator for the Tennessean's Music City Moms (later renamed Moms Like Me). The paper ended the forum in 2012, but one member...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 18, 2013 | All The Rest of Life, Art, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Travel
Okay! Ready? To make tea, you boil tap water, pour, steep and sip. Right? Worse, nuke a mug of tap water. Right? Nope and nope. Trust me. The type of water and how it's heated does affect the taste. I'll skip the parts about what temperature and bringing to a...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 17, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
Wednesday night I sent my sisters a text, reminding them that the next day, Valentine's, was our mother's "favorite holiday" and told them that I loved them. When we were growing up, on February 14 each year, Mother would repurpose the old red Easter...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 8, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Spirituality
My writing mentor/coach, Portland, Ore.-based Charlotte Rains Dixon–whom I met through Middle Tennessee State University's Writer's Loft–tagged me to participate in a blog hop about my next book. She was tagged, then she tagged me and some other...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 1, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood
They come and go. These people, in and out of our lives. A constant, steady stream. When my daughter was scheduled for an evaluation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Child Development Center, the form asked if we wanted psychological support. Blessedly, I...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 25, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
The juiciest, most voracious years of my life for loosing myself in between the pages of a library's worth of books were in my mid-20s when I rode the bus and train from the suburb of Stone Mountain to midtown Atlanta. Followed by the years I spent cumulative...
