by Leisa A. Hammett | Mar 21, 2012 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood
I was born a triangle. A triangle in a family of circles and squares. There are memories of this dynamic coursing through my familial childhood memories, in preschool, kindergarten, elementary and boldly in middle school. And, oh, gawd, most definitely in high school....
by Leisa A. Hammett | Mar 14, 2012 | Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
To date, the well-intended young man who suggested my daughter with autism relieve her symptoms with a few tokes on a joint wins my personal autism mother's prize for the most bizarre uninvited suggestion for my daughter's disAbility. Many others have...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Mar 1, 2012 | Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
I am reminded. I am reminded each day as I walk the side street nearby, past the upscale assisted living facility. It is often dinner hour when I pass by. When my daughter was a baby, we called it the arsenic hour. Business-attired women my age drive up along the...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 22, 2012 | Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
So call me "Cougar." He was pretty easy on the eyes. He wore tall, caramel-colored boots. Skinny-legged jeans tucked in. By his side was a high-end, sleek model motorcycle helmet. His lap-top shouted his renegade politics: bumper stickers brandishing...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 15, 2012 | Autism/Disability, Motherhood
In well-meaning moments of empathy, friends and acquaintances often offer up an "I'm sorry" for another's (sometimes assumed) pain. I wrote about that here, in regards to recent events in my Life. A Facebook comment about my daughter reminded me...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 13, 2012 | All The Rest of Life, Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
Psychologist Kristin Neff is the mother and wife featured in the book and movie, "The Horse Boy." The movie was reviewed here on "The Journey with Grace." I found Neff's work via a Google search after I first viewed an advance copy of the film....
