by Leisa A. Hammett | Mar 11, 2011 | Art, Autism/Disability, Obama/Politics, Technology/Blogging
Who says photography isn't art? Does anyone still dare utter such poppycock these days? I'm in love with photoblog Chookooloonks. (Surprise.) Through the blog's photo-essayist creator, Karen Walrond, also author of The Beauty of Different, I've learned...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 9, 2011 | Art, Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging
The blogging conference session was tagged "Advocates and Activists: Harnessing Social Media for Social Good in the Face of Compassion Fatigue." I slipped into the back of the room. Late. I assumed I'd hear about India. Haiti….I was curious, but I...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Feb 4, 2011 | Art, Nashville!, Technology/Blogging
Wow!…Have you ever witnessed a work of art–a performance, a painting, a book–and were taken aback with awe? Have you ever witnessed a work of art by a friend and felt that sense of awe intensified? That's how I felt when I closed the hardback...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 28, 2011 | Art, H2H, Our Book, Technology/Blogging
"Can it text?" "Blog? "Scroll? "WI-FI? "Tweet? No…it's a book." The above is an except from the back cover of It's a Book. The short story's dialogue takes place between a mouse, a monkey and a donkey. Rather than...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 24, 2011 | Art, Technology/Blogging
Three down and two to go. The Seminar Slut tramps on into 2011 and I am so excited to hear Dr. Brene Brown, Ph.D. this Thursday at Nashville's annual Blissdom blogging conference! Blissdom was started by Allison Worthington, a smart and savvy mother with her...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 16, 2011 | Art, Autism/Disability, Technology/Blogging
Ahem. Just sayin'…Again….This is a movie deserving of your dollars, time and attention. Hollywood's Foreign Press Association thinks so, too. The Social Network is, ironically, a movie about a socially inept young man (now billionaire Mark...
