by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 18, 2011 | All The Rest of Life, Grief & Loss, Motherhood, Nashville!
In honor of all the beautiful women who have survived, are struggling with or who passed on because of Breast Cancer. October, of course, is Breast Cancer Month: I love Nashville. It is a city with Spirit, Spunk and crammed to overflow with Creativity. In all forms....
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 14, 2011 | Art, Autism/Disability, Nashville!
These are exciting times here at GraceArt. We've received seven solicitations, most within the last month and all within the last six months for three solo shows next year (not all yet solidified,) three out-of-town shows and as a featured artist in two books on...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 1, 2011 | Art, Autism/Disability, Nashville!
The video, which I could not later relocate on Facebook, where I saw it last night, had me howling and wiping tears. There is a video via the local news, but my experience is if I post it here, it will eventually expire. Thankfully, Nashville Mayor Dean just won...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Sep 26, 2011 | Art, Nashville!
Nashville's high-end mall just racheted up the chi-chi. There's a new kid in town. And, in a scenario akin to the Beverly Hillbillies seeing a cement pond for the first time ever, I'd forgotten until I went seeking a cure for out-of-control curls at the...
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 21, 2011 | Art, Autism/Disability, Nashville!
Courtesy of author Chantal Sicile-Kira, just learned about this new autism dad book: Following Ezra: What One Father Learned About Gumby, Otters, Autism, and Love from His Extraordinary Son, by Tom Fields-Meyer. Writes Sicile-Kira: "It's a wonderful...
