by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 10, 2011 | Art, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
Disclosure: Recently, about a dozen Nashville-area bloggers and I were the guests of Hallmark's "Moments Between the Milestones" national tour. Yes, they were hawking a product line, but they do it. Oh. So. Well. I was gifted some goodies from the...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 5, 2011 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
My 17-year-old skips down a sidewalk in the middle of Vanderbilt University. Ironically, it's the very campus we drove to daily for many years of grueling early autism intervention. That was then. This is now. And seeing her like that there, the word that lit up...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Sep 23, 2011 | Art, Motherhood, Nashville!
"This summer, 59 students wrote 59 novels in a month. That's 2.5 million words, and over 5,000 hours of tv-watching, video-game playing, Facebooking, and texting replaced with WRITING. That's a revolution." –Kristen House If you've been...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Sep 19, 2011 | Art, Motherhood, Nature, Obama/Politics, Spirituality, Travel
Sharing this via my amazing friend author Whitney Ferre @ CreativelyFit.com. If you're lucky enough to be in the lovely Pacific Northwest, Whitney, formerly of The Creative Fitness Center and Rumours Gallery and Wine Bars, packed her bags and moved there...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Sep 12, 2011 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood, Spirituality
Yesterday morning after 10 minutes of NPR, I turned off the radio and proceeded with the day. I don't do media coverage of horror. To me, it's self-inflicted emotional torture. All I need to know are the facts and see an image one time. Not watch it over and...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Sep 9, 2011 | Art, Motherhood, Nashville!, Spirituality, Travel
I'm proud of the lil' Piedmont hamlet of my youth. I'm saving the bragging about the increasing and deserved public recognition of Greenville, South Carolina, for a future blog post. One of the not so redeeming features of my Carolina border town is the...
