by Leisa A. Hammett | May 16, 2012 | Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Motherhood, Spirituality
It's that nasty lil' thing we do–especially mothers–within the autism community. I've written about it here several times in a more general life context. It's a little bit of that ages-old keeping up the the Joneses self-inflicted torture....
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 11, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Travel
Grand tally: About 2,500 miles, nearly 40 hours driving and $700 worth of fossil fuels were logged, totaled and consumed by yours truly with a sidekick or two, sometimes including Grace, during April. How that went down: the last day of March, I hung GraceArt: Grace...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 9, 2012 | Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
Admittedly, I'm tunnel visioned. I only have one child. She is not "neurotypical." Yet, I'm able to imagine that what I'm about to communicate here could apply to parents who have children without disAbilities. And that is, it's not a sprint....
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 7, 2012 | Autism/Disability, Motherhood
I think I have found the keys. They fit the three padlocks on the door behind which I have stood much of the last 17 years, my hand wrenching the door knob. I've stood on my tippy toes much of the time, one eye shut, the other eye muscled open wide, peering...
by Leisa A. Hammett | May 2, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
Weave in. Weave out. Delicate at times. Boisterous and rocking and raucous at others, this dance of mother-daughter. The same child-turned young woman who locked me in my bedroom last night in some sort of weird, unspoken developmentally delayed adolescent...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Apr 30, 2012 | Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Obama/Politics
So, this event was Saturday and while many of my admirable, courageous sisters–whom I hold in highest esteem–were down at the capitol, I was driving back from Athens, Tenn., taking down the first of two GraceArt shows dismantled this weekend. But, the...
