by Leisa A. Hammett | Sep 1, 2010 | Nature, Travel
Happy Birthday, Husband 2.0, you hard-partying bird nerd! We conspired. The Mother-in-Law and I. The Nashville Zoo has a new exhibit featuring 30 Carribean Flamingos complete with a lagoon. And, to rev up for the grand opening, their clever keepers offered a promotion...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Aug 15, 2010 | Art, Grief & Loss, Spirituality, Travel
HISS! HISS! HISS not at the acting, the direction, the plot of Elizabeth Gilbert's phenomenally best-selling memoir about her one-year spiritual-emotional quest to Italy, India and Indonesia. No. HISS! at the critics who are panning this film that review...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jul 20, 2010 | Travel
As a young 20something, I came to this realization following a two-week story trip in Hawaii. Just after my return to Atlanta, I drove past the red clay and dotted pine terrain of North Georgia into my home state of South Carolina's Piedmont: beauty is...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jul 15, 2010 | All The Rest of Life, Art, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Travel
Photo: Port Orford, Ore., three months into our relationship…As our sister B&B guest and new friend snapped this photo she chanted: "Ya'll are gettin' married…." Yeah. We knew it then….Three years ago from this past May, the...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jun 29, 2010 | All The Rest of Life, Autism/Disability, Divorce, Motherhood, Nature, Spirituality, Travel
Photo: copyright, Leisa A. Hammett, Western Lake, Grayton Beach, Fla.Simple. The question: "Why are you Grateful for your family?" It was asked on my client social media site on Mother's Day. I loved answering it so much that I decided to share my...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jun 16, 2010 | Autism/Disability, Divorce, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Spirituality, Travel
*Fall, 2009, Our Beloved Grayton Beach. Copyright: M. Dee Hamilton One week after I moved into our new home, I turned half a century. At this point I'm maybe shin deep in boxes, but the Big Day–I was still over at the Old House culling out 16 years worth of...
