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Grace Goad, Art & Autism Capture the News Spotlight Locally Nationally. 8220;All news is good news.” We are grateful for the coverage by News Channel 5 of Grace Goad’s art and a blurb for our inclusive nonprofit social enterprise we’re launching to support artists with disAbilities to create, exhibit, and sell their work. Note the “cooking” reference by the anchor is a long-term optional plan for artists… Continue Reading. Solidarité with Paris: Being Peace Wherever We are in the World. In the process, w...

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Helping Your Child Befriend Children who are Different

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Helping Your Child Befriend Children who are Different. Making friends. Playdates. Sleepovers. Birthday parties. Rites of childhood, true? Where I’m blogging today for Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. Happy Double Nickel Birthday To Me. Thoughts on Charleston & Celebrating Light From My Home State →. Sorry, comments are closed for this post. Upcoming Events: Grace Goad Autism Art. Tentative: Germantown Art Crawl, Sat. 6/18, 4-9 PM. 100 Taylor Arts Collective @ SEAC* Office. I'm a writ...

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RIP: Joanna Stanfield Montgomery; A Beauty & Bravery Lives On - LeisaHammett.com

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RIP: Joanna Stanfield Montgomery; A Beauty & Bravery Lives On. Like her beauty, her words gripped the listener and the reader’s heart. She was always a late bloomer, she told us cast mates in that first reading of our soon-to-be onstage performance of Nashville’s inaugural Listen to Your Mother. Listen to her moving story here, but be sure to have a wad of tissues at the ready. And on Huffington Post. But you know what? You’re Invited: New Works, Plus Grace Goad Autism Art Show, Reception. Yes, I like th...

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About - LeisaHammett.com

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It took me 18 years of her life to realize the real reason why I named my daughter Grace. It was because I needed to give my own self some grace. Mercy starts at home. She is my greatest teacher. I’ve been writing since I was 10 and getting paid for it for three-plus decades of my adult life. That includes articles published in the. Better Homes and Gardens. From Heartache to Hope: Middle Tennessee Families Living with Autism. Gannett) MusicCityMoms and MomsLikeMe.com, I served as associate editor for.

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Charleston & Celebrating Light From SC

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Thoughts on Charleston & Celebrating Light From My Home State. It’s now two days after many of us awakened with the news of the Charleston racially motivated mass shooting that claimed, among them, a senator’s life and took place in a beautiful historic African American church while its innocent and unaware and trusting members were praying. I haven’t commented here or any social media platform about the event. I haven’t known what to say. And still do not. To be a stubborn seeker of gladness in the world.

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"I See YOU;" DisAbility & The Importance of Being Seen - LeisaHammett.com

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8220;I See YOU;” DisAbility & The Importance of Being Seen. The guest band was rocking. I stood by the ice cream truck watching my daughter do her wacky dance. Shed led us over to the truck and kept periodically asking for ice cream and pointing to the pictures on the truck, but just about the time wed cue up for a dip, shed take off in a crazed spasm of movement as the band blasted out another number. Thats my girl. As I stood at the conclusion of the Down Syndrome Association of Middle Tennessee. I rec...

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You're Invited: New Works, Plus ~ Grace Goad | Autism Art Show, Reception - LeisaHammett.com

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You’re Invited: New Works, Plus Grace Goad Autism Art Show, Reception. Artist Grace Walker Goad turned 21 last month and all of this hawt month of July, some New Works, Plus, can be seen at the Gordon Jewish Community Center. In Nashville. “The JCC” is located at 801 Percy Warner Boulevard, just off Highway 70, up “Nine Mile Hill,” in the St. Henry’s / West Meade region and near the Nashville side of Bellevue. And launched her business that year. She’s shown and has had representation from Soho...Her tal...

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Pining for an Empty Nest - LeisaHammett.com

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Pining for an Empty Nest. Not long after all hell broke loose. All hell had broken loose and they were unable to calm her. They watched her as she jammed her tiny finger up one nostril and left it there, later staring through the play yard chain-link fence and a hole through the director who crouched in front of her, calling out my preschoolers name with no response. Someone else finally agreed with me: something was not right with my child. Come at noon,. Well make her time here half days. A Middle-Aged...

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A Fathers Day Remembrance

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But, my sister’s text didn’t go into any of that, but rather shared a list, of memories, upon which I elaborate here:. Up and down we’d ride on his out-stretched foreleg, our tiny, short fingers interlocked with his large, thick ones. I can see him smiling: his goofy, and much later I’d learn very self-conscious grin. Late Sunday afternoon ritual of hand-churned peach ice cream. A wooden slatted and metal crank apparatus with a toppling mound of thick rock salt. To the last one in her list of memories,.