by LeisaHammett | Oct 17, 2016 | Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
So this is how it happens. Now I know. Several times a year, a story will rack up tens of thousands of social media shares amongst special needs families and our greater community. Some child or young adult will have been asked to leave an establishment because...
by LeisaHammett | Aug 17, 2016 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature, Spirituality
As I locked the back door, I heard the sudden ssshushh in the tops of the deciduous forest behind my condominium. What was that? A storm signaling? Like that day and the days before it and the days before those, it was another hot one in August. I put my keys and...
by LeisaHammett | May 15, 2016 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality, Uncategorized
It’s Pomp and Circumstance time. Many of my peers are celebrating the graduation of their sons and daughters from high school and a forthcoming path to college. Or, they’re cheering them on as they walk across the stage of their soon-to-be college alma...
by LeisaHammett | Feb 15, 2016 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
At our old, round, love-worn pine table, backlit by the kitchen window, she sat crisscross, her purple manicured toes up to her mid-calves bare to the winter chill. For days during our snow, sleet, rain, stop-and-go late January through mid February, we’d been...
by LeisaHammett | Nov 20, 2015 | Art, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Spirituality, Uncategorized
“All news is good news.” We are grateful for the coverage by News Channel 5 of Grace Goad’s art and a blurb for our inclusive nonprofit social enterprise we’re launching to support artists with disAbilities to create, exhibit, and sell their...
by LeisaHammett | Oct 29, 2015 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Spirituality
Indie Lens Pop-Up in Partnership with The Arc Tennessee brings a FREE Nashville Screening of Mini and Dona with a panel discussion following on November 20. “Heart-wrenching. The film is as unflinching as it is beautiful, chronicling difficult decision-making that...
