by LeisaHammett | Jun 20, 2015 | All The Rest of Life, Art, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Nashville!, Obama/Politics, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging
It’s now two days after many of us awakened with the news of the Charleston racially motivated mass shooting that claimed, among them, a senator’s life and took place in a beautiful historic African American church while its innocent and unaware and...
by LeisaHammett | May 28, 2015 | Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature, Spirituality
It is possible to be physically present in nature but not be present in the one “Now” moment that nature encourages. I recall the time I walked the length of Radnor Lake, and only at the end did I realize I’d not been present in the beauty...
by LeisaHammett | May 11, 2015 | Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality
Mother’s day. This year’s Hallmark celebration came and went. And, my own Mother’s been gone for seven years now. Oddly, I feel closer to her now than I may have ever felt when she was living. That’s due mostly to the shifts within me. I spoke...
by LeisaHammett | Apr 27, 2015 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood, Spirituality
Funny how time renders perspective. Even a different way of looking at things once held as definitive truth and “the way.” The “right” way. I now get it. I totally get why that older mom was so miffed and would mouth off against research versus...
by LeisaHammett | Apr 16, 2015 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Obama/Politics, Spirituality
In our nearly two-decades-old, small, local meet-up group of moms with sons and daughters who have disAbilities, (plus a dad or two, and a few friends who work on behalf of our community,) we call her the queen. Not just any queen, but the Queen Mother. Or,...
by LeisaHammett | Mar 23, 2015 | Art, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature, Spirituality
You matter. Of course you do. But somewhere in the course of parenting, self-care for moms and dads (especially moms) is often forgotten. Here’s the deal: You are the foundation of your family. If the foundation is not sturdy, how will you support your...
