by Leisa A. Hammett | Dec 20, 2011 | Autism/Disability, Motherhood
Answer me this: What's with kids and bandaids? I taped up about a half-dozen blisters on my daughter's feet yesterday afternoon. She was rapt. And then, she asked for more. She's 17 and coulda easily put them on herself. She usually does. But as I was...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Dec 15, 2011 | Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
Pandora played carols quietly in the background. Cider simmered wisps of cinnamon and clove into the atmosphere. With our fingers, we consumed chunks of warm, moist gingerbread. It had been about Christmastime last that we three had met like this. Only last time we...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Dec 13, 2011 | Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Obama/Politics
Despite my self-pledge to post less and keep it lighter this holiday, today's post today is published in honor of the thousands of Tennesseans living with disAbilities who receive minimal but important funds from The Family Support Program, which is currently on...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Dec 7, 2011 | Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
Bite. Pull. Tear. Quickly: lick the juice before it streams a forearm's length. This morning I stood above my kitchen sink peeling an orange for breakfast. As I sloughed the thick rind, bearing the translucent juice-bursting slices, I thought of her. And when I...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Dec 4, 2011 | All The Rest of Life, Art, Autism/Disability, Motherhood, Nashville!, Obama/Politics
Dear Occupy Nashville, Thank you for fulfilling your civic duty, for telling your truth, for standing up for the little guys–most of us are they little guys. Thank you for being passionate, for being brave, for sacrificing for those of us who just cannot. Thank...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Nov 22, 2011 | Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Motherhood, Technology/Blogging
Today's usual Wednesday "Autism/DisAbility" blog entry is posted over at imamomtoo. Please click over and read my take about taking responsibility for our own feelings when we "think" others are staring at or judging our children with autism...
