Songs for The Spirit
Music. Know how there's the tunes that take you through the tough times? Music that resonates with your soul? Cradles you? Music assures your spirit that The Light will Shine again? When I left my first post-Divorce relationship, I knew I'd stepped out....
The Never-Neverland of Comparison Revisited
Twice last week, I was engaged in conversations with mothers who stammered in describing and apologizing for their offspring's disAbilities. In light of autism, ADD, said one mother, was of little measure. Another mother minimized her child's significant...
In Like a Lion
February Roses back-dropped by a March 2nd Snow. Image, post, copyright: Leisa A. HammettMarch. Day One.The microwave hummed behind me.I stretched facing the kitchen's double windows. On the table before them, eight remaining Valentine's roses, sentimental....
Authors Blaze Social Media Path
Social Media. Why bother? If you are a writer in this millennium and even more importantly, a book author, to not be doing social media is to be a dinosaur. Jus' sayin'. And even if you are not a writer but own a business or offer a service, social media is...
Granny D: A Century Well-Lived
You're Never too Old to Raise a Little Hell Do you remember Granny D? More than a decade ago, Doris "Granny D" Haddock walked through Nashville, if I recall correctly, as I had friends who joined alongside her as she came through town. At age 89,...
A Good Doctor is Hard to Find
Photo: ernstl Conservative. The word has multiple meanings depending on the context in which it's used. Most often in my neurotypical sphere, it's used in conversation about politics. Or religion. In another realm of my world--the weird world of autism--I use...
Romance with Skies of Gratitude
After she had opened the bounty of gifts we other mothers of children with autism had bought for her to re-establish her home--destroyed by Hurricane Katrina--Joyce wiped her tears and shared that she never understood those people on television...The ones whose lives...
