Wordless Wed.: Traveling Light Show
I take pictures of odd things. Like the funky lighting at different places I visited last spring: The photos in the middle are from our habitual road trip pit stop--Starbucks in Cookeville, Tenn. The others from the Hampton Inn & Suites in Downtown Chattanooga...
When “Expect” Gets in the Way of Love
The day after Christmas I woke up angry. There was a part of Christmas that did not go as planned. (And I'm not talking about gifts here.) Aha! In dissecting it with my teacher, I got it. While my concerns were legitimate and understandable, the root of the...
Candor on the Other Side of the Journey
The juiciest, most voracious years of my life for loosing myself in between the pages of a library's worth of books were in my mid-20s when I rode the bus and train from the suburb of Stone Mountain to midtown Atlanta. Followed by the years I spent cumulative...
Wordless Wednesday, Wandering Travelogues & a Writer’s Retreat
Vintage. Everyway you looked at it. But we got a lot of work done five days last May on the first of a continuing series of writer's retreats. Photo: Jamestown, Tenn., ©LeisaHammett.com
Take Two: Maneuvering Through the Obstacle Course of Emotions on the Autism Parenting Journey, or Any Life Journey
So, here's the deal. For a long time I've had more figured out about the autism parenting journey than I have had about other parts of my life. The last two-and-a-half years have been my wake-up-punch-in-the-face after falling ever so flat and hard on said...
Manuevering Through the Obstacle Course of Emotions on the Autism Parenting Journey
Bowls of black-eyed peas, mixed with corn, tomatoes, green chiles, kale and garlic immersed in chicken and vegetable broth steamed before us. It was the dinner hour of New Years Day and Grace and I had returned from our separate post Christmas holidays. The phone...
Back to Chattanooga Town
What a FUN, innovative, city the-once-scruffy-river-town-along-the-interstate Chattanooga town has become! Everything has an artsy bent: Above, the downtown riverside at night. From top, left to right: Ken, my companion who looked rather like a riverboat captain...
