by Leisa A. Hammett | Jul 31, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Nashville!
Tomorrow, my recent high school graduate, now 19, will be picked up by a school bus for a regular school length day and travel downtown and back at the end of the day. By federal law, students with disAbilities who do not graduate with a general education academic...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jul 17, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Nature
Our family–which in this case includes Grace's father–from whom I am divorced–his wife and my dear oldest sister and her husband and I–have managed to create a nice little summer rhythm for our beloved Grace. In late May, Grace ends her...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jul 15, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood, Nashville!
Today's post is the fourth in a weekly summer series (here, here & here) of featured guest posts about disAbility. Lacey Lyons is an Belmont University adjunct professor of English who has partnered with Courtney Taylor Evans and I at several workshops...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jul 10, 2013 | Art, Nashville!
Yet another must-see at Nashville's iconic Art Deco Post War, former Post Office housing the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. It's a two-for-one, really, if you've not seen Sensuous Steele. Starting this weekend, in addition, visitors can breathe in the...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jul 8, 2013 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!
You know those extra special moments of your child's growing up years? The ones that are forever seared into the memory banks of motherhood? Yeah, those. I have one that is particularly special to my daughter's childhood. Last month my girl turned 19. But this...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jun 19, 2013 | Art, Autism/Disability, Nashville!
We've been through a lot, this friend and I. His son, a year younger than my Grace, was diagnosed about six months after I first heard the word "autism," or at least officially in connection to my daughter. Soon, a friend who began helping us, began...
