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Outrageous Fortune
www.outrageousfortune.net
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Essays about twins, cerebral palsy, motherhood, recipes and — let's be honest here — me. "Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them." — Hamlet
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REVIEW: My Stroke of Insight by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

One of the many serendipitous things I experienced on our medical trip to California was finding a copy of Dr. Jill Bolte Taylors My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientists Personal...

2 days ago

What 3,000 high school students taught me about the gift of giving

The moment when I was at the center of 3,000 people standing to say they wanted to help my family taught me a lot. It taught me that I need to get over my inhibitions about fundraising for Malachi, b...

3 days ago

Good book, good cause

My heart is so wrapped up in this announcement that I can feel it beating through my fingertips. I have been sitting on a ready-to-launch Kickstarter campaign for almost a month now. Contained within...

4 days ago

Where did my babies go and what are these big kids doing here?

For twelve long years I was the youngest member of my extended family, not to mention six years younger than my siblings. I got really tired of everyone treating me like a baby. And I really couldnt ...

25 may 12

11 questions (Part Two)

Yesterday I posted the first part of this 11 Questions meme, in which I told you 11 random things about me. This was one of them: I also posted 11 questions for 11 blogger friends. Here are those blo...

22 may 12

11 questions (Part One)

OK, so yeah, this is nothing more than a glorified chain letter, but its fun and I actually spent a lot of thought and time on it, so deal with it. A million years ago, Andi from Bringing the Sunshin...

22 may 12

Dear Glee, please do for disabled kids what youve done for gay kids

Every television show has its point to make. Some make theirs better than others. FOXs Glee has done a particularly good job of not only having engaging characters, story lines and music numbers, but...

14 may 12

Happy Tears

I held it together pretty well until he asked them to stand. We were at David Douglas High School, a large local high school in our neighborhood. We had to wait until the end of the assembly, so it w...

12 may 12

ONE-HUNDRED-THOUS AND PAGEVIEWS!

WOW!!! I remember back when I first started this blog, looking with envy at a ticker that read 50,000 pageviews. Man, I thought, that will take forever. But just a year later, here my ticker is with ...

09 may 12

Our therapy trip to California

Im happy to report the feeling of providence continued on our trip to the Anat Baniel Method Center in San Rafael, California. Everything went as well as could be expected, the weather was beaut...

07 may 12

Who is Malachi?

I havent had nearly as much free time down here in California as Id hoped, but I did find some time to write a long-overdue page devoted to cerebral palsy, Malachi and Malachis cerebral palsy so that...

04 may 12

On our way, the sequel

By this time tomorrow, Malachi and I will be back in California for a therapy trip to the Anat Baniel Method Center. I truly didnt think we would ever do that again after last time, but through gener...

29 apr 12

Wordless Wednesday: Science museum. With twins. Alone.

I thought it was high time I record the insanity that is taking two little boys to the local interactive science museum, especially when one cant move himself around. My solution? Strap a leash on on...

25 apr 12

Our Wedding, Our Love and the Soundtrack of Our Life

Ive been thinking a lot about my wedding lately. Family friends are getting married this weekend, and wedding commercials are gearing up. MSNBC also recently told the sad-but-beautiful story&nbs...

22 apr 12

My responses to 3 Wacky Questions for Indie Authors

Author Milda Harris posted an interview of me today! This isnt your typical interview — like this one — but involved some pretty creative questions. Head over there to find out what color I...

21 apr 12

Wordless Wednesday: Self-portraits

Sure, they cant talk, but theyve already figured out the iPhone. They have their priorities after all.

18 apr 12

#IAmDisabled, isnt everybody?

A blogging friend of mine who writes Adventures of Me has recently come up with a disability awareness campaign called #IAmDisabled. The more I think about it, the more I think its a great idea. The ...

15 apr 12

Wordless Wednesday: Where do all the left shoes go?

11 apr 12

One can only rise from ashes

Im not a religious person. Spiritual, yes, but not religious. But I wanted to share something thats been rattling around in my head since yesterday, Easter. In an NPR story I read, author Anne L...

09 apr 12

Fundraising — bleh

I am being dragged kicking and screaming toward the conclusion that I have to ask my friends for money for my son. Not like the awesome-but-rather-underfunded $1,000 fundraiser I did last year. Like,...

06 apr 12

Wordless Wednesday: Jaden, the Wonder Boy

Welcome to the Amazing Adventures of Jaden, the Wonder Boy! Every moms favorite little helper! He gardens!  He helps prop up Malachi with pillows! He sweeps! ... and, well, he is still a boy!

04 apr 12

Wordless Wednesday: A boy and his truck

Look who can stand at a table all by himself for several minutes without falling down! Brrrrrrr! He loves wheels for some reason.

28 mar 12

REVIEW: Kids Beyond Limits by Anat Baniel

Note: The following review assumes youve heard of the Anat Baniel Method (ABM). It is the primary methodology we use with Malachi and weve found it to be very compelling, though we are not without cr...

28 mar 12

25 mar 12

The Car Gods Hate Us

Check engine light on one, bandaid on the other. The car gods hate us. Im sure of it now. Im starting to seriously consider sacrificing a bicycle in their honor or doing an oil dance or praying to th...

25 mar 12

Why does modern medicine throw out our brains?

It is said that during the mummification process, ancient Egyptians embalmed the organs of their dead leaders in clay jars in their tombs. All of the organs, like the heart, the liver and the stomach...

21 mar 12

A day in our life

Friday was a strangely significant day full of growth, new beginnings and development. None of these were huge by any means, but they were mileposts on the highway of life and I thought it would be f...

10 mar 12

A day when people listen to the power of their own words

Im hoping that by the time my kids grow up it will seem strange to need to designate a day in which we talk about whether or not the words retard and retarded are offensive. But for now, we do. Today...

07 mar 12

Aaaand, Im back.

Hi folks! Sorry about that. Of course my website would go down the one weekend I was without Internet! Anyway, we should be good for a while.

05 mar 12

Confessions of a Christmas Elf

For some reason I keep thinking of this story I wrote for The Beaverton Valley Times a few years back (reprinted below). I think its because so many of my friends now have kids and theyre all posting...

23 dec 11

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