Sssshhh! Can you hear it? Can you feel it? Or, is it just me? This year more than ever, I’m in touch with a stillness this post-Christmas/pre-New Years week. I’ve named it the “Tween Time.” There’s a hush in the air that feels sacred,...
Growing up, our family was the go-to hosts for our faith community’s visiting speakers. Often the guests were international. Many years have passed—three decades—since I hosted international visitors, the last time being in my 20s while I lived in Atlanta. I had...
Blush. My daughter, Grace, turns 20 in one month. And Easter weekend was the first time the two of us ever took off on our own together. Not for a winding interstate trip through the mountains to our South Carolina family. Just us two on an adventure, the destination,...
  I am friends with the playwrights and others associated with the theater. This is not a personal Kickstarter campaign but one that I support. Dontate here, only 4 days left to help make this a reality:...
Hello and happy end of June to you! Hope you're having a good one. I'm at a private writer's retreat in the mountains for the weekend (not pictured here). Rock on! Image: Mountain Magnolia Inn properties, Hot Springs, NC.
Grace has six more days of traditional public school left. That's minus two for a long weekend trip to Disney World with her Dad. Graduation is May 18. Today, I'll be working with a young adult woman with autism to prepare 450 plus packets of GraceArt...
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.
