by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 25, 2012 | Autism/Disability, Motherhood
Parents of young children with autism have stories. They collect them. They chuckle with their partners and spouses and their parents and other autism families and friends about the really funny albeit odd things that their sweet babies, toddlers, preschoolers do. And...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 23, 2012 | All The Rest of Life, Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
It'd been nearly 10 years since I met up with my friend from the small, informal playgroup in which we were both members when our children were babes. Long ago she'd moved to Western North Carolina. When I vacationed in Asheville last summer, we shared a meal...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 18, 2012 | Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
grace n A favor rendered. A[n…] immunity or exemption; a reprieve. Divine love and protection bestowed freely […]. The state of being protected […]. Suddenly….Life as I'd known it somersaulted up into the air,...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 11, 2012 | All The Rest of Life, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
"Please. Let's not do this to each other." In an Oprah Magazine article by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, those are the words said by one mother to another when one mother watches the other organize a scavenger hunt and claims,...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 3, 2012 | Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Spirituality
There's the standard fare of black-eyed peas (the edible version you stir in a pot) and greens. Opening and closing a door to let out the old, jumping from a perch at midnight to leap into the new….And while I usually incorporate those fun things into the...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Dec 29, 2011 | All The Rest of Life, Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Spirituality
Western Lake, Grayton Beach, Fla., Fall 2009, copyright: Leisa A. Hammett "I am aware, there is but One Life, I am this field of creative potential in all Its' power, glory and possibility. "I accept there is always a way to greater good. I act like it,...
