by LeisaHammett | Jan 1, 2021 | Art, COVID-19, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature, Online Dating, Spirituality, Uncategorized
2020—What did you learn? What did we learn? What did I learn?: I may have just been accused of being Pollyanna. I question that of myself regularly. Yet, again and again, I justify my thoughts based on my experiences—which have included my own share of grief,...
by LeisaHammett | Dec 28, 2020 | Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Nature, Online Dating, Spirituality
Quickly, twilight was dimming down the warmth and visibility of our late afternoon walk. Thanksgiving was a week away. But my mind was digging into the archives of 2006. Back to another walk on this same park road also during the thinning veil of fall. It was a...
by LeisaHammett | Dec 22, 2020 | Art, COVID-19, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Online Dating, Spirituality, Uncategorized
As we approach 2021 with held breath and fingers crossed, I’ve compiled a series of mostly Facebook posts that I wrote between January 2019 and April 2020 and publishing them here. I’ve been wanting to do this for some time. The feedback received was that...
by LeisaHammett | Dec 20, 2020 | Autism/Disability, COVID-19, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality, Uncategorized
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” —Oscar Wilde Increasingly, autism research produces “aha” moments for the scientific community. And, as a recent joint study from University of California, Santa Cruz, and the...
by LeisaHammett | Dec 16, 2020 | COVID-19, Midlife and Beyond, Online Dating, Spirituality, Uncategorized
Yet another female friend of “larger body proportions” has inspired me with an authentic social media post about loving the all of herself. This was my reply turned blog post. When I cut off my blonde curls and went silver and steel, a friend from college...
by LeisaHammett | Dec 8, 2020 | Art, Autism/Disability, COVID-19, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nashville!, Obama/Politics, Spirituality, Uncategorized
COVID Self-Care 101 = Read a good book! A free book to five lucky winners from yours truly. Happy Holidays! …Nashville is, of course, known for its musical prowess. For several years when I moved back here and answered the “what do you do”...
