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    Making Lemonade With Ben: The Audacity to Cope
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    Making Lemonade With Ben: The Audacity to Cope

    By Katherine Perreth

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    This inspiring book explores issues of global significance surrounding a family suddenly presented with a special needs child. At age seven, uber-outgoing Ben experiences myriad disabilities, mental challenges, and later, mental illness. The author candidly portrays her own deep struggles with what Ben's life requires of her, and the roles of various communities in Ben's recovery, including medical, educational, faith, governmental, and cross-cultural. In addition, the author celebrates the good created in Ben's life because of his connection to Yahara House, an internationally accredited mental health treatment and recovery Clubhouse in Madison, and an intentional employer, the Madison Children's Museum.

    Ben's perpetually cheerful, never-say-die attitude brings him recognition. In 2011, the museum hires Ben, and then selects him as Community Member to accompany staff to Washington DC. There, the museum receives the Institute of Museum and Library Services National Medal. Ben is front-page Wisconsin State Journal news on December 5, 2011. In November 2012, Madison Magazine features him as one of top ten people giving back to the community.

    Despite his various continued challenges and setbacks, Ben now leads an independent life he loves, working at his "dream job." Among other museum duties, Ben is employed as a one-handed juggler. His stated goal? Make humanity smile.

    This Cinderella Story is chock-full of pathos, especially employing the author's main coping strategy, humor, while weaving multiple threads of love, and championing a caring community whose values breed success.

    Or, as Ben calls it, "A total yin-yang, win-win."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKatherine Perreth
    Release dateMar 8, 2013
    ISBN9781301552740
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    Making Lemonade With Ben: The Audacity to Cope
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    Katherine Perreth

    Katherine joyfully juggles three part-time jobs: reporter for her hometown newspaper, administrative assistant at an English school for international students, and facilitator of a reminiscence writing class - helping women of a certain age write the stories of their lives. She tries hard not to drop all the balls at once, and attempts to live a (moderately) quiet life in Wisconsin with her husband, and three (pretty much) out-of-the-nest children. Katherine hates shopping, but loves dark chocolate, downhill skiing, the Green Bay Packers, and shoes.

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