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Laura Shapiro Kramer

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http://www.uncommonvoyage.com

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Before becoming a mother, Laura worked in the entertainment business. She helped manage the first national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar; produced Slab Boys on Broadway with Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, and Val Kilmer; and developed Smashville by David Mamet for ABC. In 1979 Laura married Jay Kramer, an entertainment lawyer in New York City. Their son Seth was born in 1983, followed by daughter Haya in 1987.

The direction of Laura’s life changed when Seth was diagnosed with cerebral palsy in 1984. She embarked on a journey to improve the quality of Seth’s life, plunging into a world that lacked today’s information-rich internet to get everything she could for Seth—at first within the mainstream and later in a wider world that came to include ost ...more

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Laura Shapiro Kramer I refuse it. I don't know what it means. I always have work to do. I have stories and essays and edits and blogging and my mind never stops going. I a…moreI refuse it. I don't know what it means. I always have work to do. I have stories and essays and edits and blogging and my mind never stops going. I am bursting with ideas; interested in so much in every realm we have the chance to live in.
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Laura Shapiro Kramer You can be a writer anywhere! With my Ipad and journal, I have traveled the world and lived overseas without missing a day of writing. Its like 'aware…moreYou can be a writer anywhere! With my Ipad and journal, I have traveled the world and lived overseas without missing a day of writing. Its like 'awareness' - a meaningful and needed attribute that you can carry anywhere without being weighed down! (less)

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Average rating: 4.65 · 17 ratings · 6 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Uncommon Voyage: Parenting Children With Special Needs - A Guidebook 4.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncommon Voyage: Parenting a Special Needs Child in the World of Alternative Medicine really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncommon Voyage: Parenting a Special Needs Child by Laura Shapiro Kramer (Goodreads Author), Seth Kramer (Foreword) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Plastic

“Nothing is permanent but change.”
Heraclitus

“Change is the only evidence of life.”
Evelyn Waugh

Plastic is defined in the dictionary as malleable, moldable, pliable, pliant, ductile, flexible, soft, workable, bendable. What better word—plastic—to describe that big miraculous, wondrous nerve in our head: the brain.

When my son was diagnosed with cerebral palsy thirty-five years ago, no medical docto Read more of this blog post »

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