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The Couch Chronicles: An Entire Day, “By Gawd,” Spent on Facebook

by Leisa A. Hammett | Jul 24, 2012 | Obama/Politics, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging

A knitted caftan replaced the cashmere shawl she'd planned to don. Beneath it she wore fleece and flannels all the day long once the mid-February threat of ice and snow cancelled her Sunday afternoon rendezvous with friends over steaming bowls of chili. She...

Summertime Reboot & A Writer’s Discipline

by Leisa A. Hammett | Jun 29, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Midlife and Beyond, Nashville!, Technology/Blogging

My cozy intown writer's hideaway, Nashville Public Library. Photo: ©LeisaHammett.com, taken with my Droid camera phone and happily doctored with Pixlr-o-matic app–my latest down-time joyful "rest" obsession. Until my senior year in college, a lap...

Whitney Houston’s Death A Reminder of Our Humanity

by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 20, 2012 | Art, Midlife and Beyond, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging

  Saturday, much of America apparently perched on their couches and watched Whitney Houston's funeral via television or live-stream internet. The Facebook community was stacked with commentary. Though I'm not a fan of celebrity, I believe in the...

Telling the Truth About Deen’s Sugar-Coated Lie

by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 30, 2012 | All The Rest of Life, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging

The hoo-la over the diagnosis of the Queen of Fat & Sugar, Culinary Marketing Guru, Paula Deen, with Type-2 diabetes has simmered down a bit in the last week. I guess. At risk of sounding self-righteous: I really don't know because I rarely flick on the boob...

Divorce 2.0

by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 16, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging

…This is the blog post that once upon a time I dreaded writing. Back last early June when I moved out of the house I shared with Husband 2.0, I dreaded the thought of coming here and posting this very personal and once very painful news. And then, over the...

Take Note: Southern Light Photographers

by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 7, 2012 | Art, Nashville!, Technology/Blogging

A visual feast that promises to touch the soul of the viewer plus–what opportunity (and fun): Copyrighted image, "Savannah Canopy," featured in exhibition, by extraordinary South Light photographer, Nick Dantona. One of Nashville's finest art...
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GRACE GOAD | AUTISM ART:

Shimai Gallery of Contemporary Craft
8400 Highway 100, Nashville, Tenn.
(Little cottage in the far corner of the Loveless Cafe complex.)

FEATURED POSTS

  • Blossoming: All New Grace Goad Works, Shimai Gallery
  • Message of the Mammoth Moth: Grace in the Time of Corona
  • Year Two—Still Seeking the Resurrection: Grace in the Time of Corona
  • Lessons of the Lenten Roses: Grace in the Time of Corona
  • Self-Love on V-Day: Grace in the Time of Corona

FROM HEARTACHE TO HOPE

From Heartache to Hope: middle tennessee families living with autism, a book by Leisa A. Hammett & photographer Rebekah Pope. Click here for more info plus ordering details.

Grace Goad Autism Art

ABOUT LEISA HAMMETT

Hi! I’m a writer and a speaker, and I represent the art of my young adult daughter, Grace Goad, who has autism. We’ve been featured on The View, Al Jazeera America, and in numerous television, radio, magazine, newspaper, and online features. I’ve written one book about autism and I’m working on spiritual memoir about living with autism. Hope you’ll hang out here online with us.

 

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