Mace Bugen might have been an achondroplastic dwarf—forty-three inches tall with an average-sized head and a torso set on small, twisted legs—but that didn’t mean he was an idiot or a pushover. In truth, he was smarter than most; over the years, he learned to effectively turn what society in those days called a handicap into a powerful tool he could use to his advantage. 
At a time before cell phones or Andy Warhol, you could say that Bugen was the world’s first practitioner of the celebrity selfie. Or maybe you could say more accurately that he was the world’s first selfie photobomber. Over a period of three decades, using his unique combination of guile, cunning, handicap, and sense of entitlement, Mace engineered photos of himself with some of the biggest celebrities of his day, among them Muhammad Ali, Jonas Salk, Jane Russell, Sammy Davis Jr, Joe DiMaggio, and Richard Nixon. 
In a column dated September 28, 1955, Walter Winchell, the iconic and fedora wearing syndicated gossip columnist, included this item in his roundup: “The dwarf who crashes the gate at most major sports events (past the cops and attendants) is ‘Mace’ Bugen, an insurance and realty man of Phillipsburg, N.J.” Thereafter he was known wherever he went as The Little Gate-Crasher. “When I was a kid,” Mace Bugen once said, “I’d ask myself, ‘Why is that guy on the football team? Why can’t I be on the team? Why didn’t God give me the height so I could be the hero?’ 
 “Then at some point I figured it out: I gotta do something special to let ’em know I’m me.”

The Little Gate-Crasher: The Life and Photos of Mace Bugen

Biographies & Memoirs

Kaplan-Mayer, Gabrielle

Community & Culture

Sager Group, The

Mace Bugen might have been an achondroplastic dwarf--forty-three inches tall with an average-sized head and a torso set on small, twisted legs--but that didn't mean he was an idiot or a pushover. In truth, he was smarter than most; over the years, he learned to effectively turn what society in those days called a handicap into a powerful tool he could use to his advantage. This book features the best of his photos and a biography of his life. At a time before cell phones or Andy Warhol, you could say that Bugen was the world's first practitioner of the celebrity selfie. Or maybe you could say more accurately that he was the world's first selfie photobomber. Over a period of three decades, using his unique combination of guile, cunning, handicap, and sense of entitlement, Mace engineered photos of himself with some of the biggest celebrities of his day, among them Muhammad Ali, Jonas Salk, Jane Russell, Sammy Davis Jr, Joe DiMaggio, and Richard Nixon. In a column dated September 28, 1955, Walter Winchell, the iconic and fedora wearing syndicated gossip columnist, included this item in his roundup: "The dwarf who crashes the gate at most major sports events (past the cops and attendants) is 'Mace' Bugen, an insurance and realty man of Phillipsburg, N.J." Thereafter he was known wherever he went as The Little Gate-Crasher. "When I was a kid," Mace Bugen once said, "I'd ask myself, 'Why is that guy on the football team? Why can't I be on the team? Why didn't God give me the height so I could be the hero?'
"Then at some point I figured it out: I gotta do something special to let 'em know I'm me."

The Little Gate-Crasher: Festival Edition: The Life and Photos of Mace Bugen

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Sager Group LLC

Parenting a child with a disability or any kind of special needs means that you are extra busy!  Mom, writer and disability advocate Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer has created this journal for fellow parents as a place to take time away and express your hopes, dreams, challenges and fears.  No one is going to give us permission to reflect—we need to claim that time.  Whether you write daily, weekly or whenever you make time, parents can open the journal to the prompt that interests you at that time.  In this journal, you get to tell your own story. This is a place where you don’t need to respond to anyone’s projections or visions. You have so many stories to share with the world about what you learn from parenting your child every day—and you begin by telling those stories to yourself.   What you pour into this journal may just be for your eyes—or it may be something that you share with a partner, best friend, fellow parent.  When your child needs extra supports, your journey demands more of you. It’s essential to create space that is yours, where you can express whatever you are feeling.

Reflection, Expression, Courage: A Journal For Parents On The Special Needs Journey

Self-Help

Journal Writing

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Increasing numbers of people with type 1 diabetes, all of whose lives depend on insulin, as well as type 2 diabetics, have already adopted the insulin pump, which replaces a regimen of insulin shots with a continuous delivery of insulin. Yet many who stand to benefit from "the pump" are put off by not fully understanding the device, and many already using it don't have anyone with whom to compare notes about its use. Now Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer, who has used the pump for more than three years, cuts through common personal fears about the pump and offers insight into the day-to-day challenges—and rewards—of life with it. Drawing on interviews with more than seventy-five pump users, including Nicole Johnson, Miss America 1999, as well as diabetes experts and other health professionals, Kaplan-Mayer discusses how the pump affects your sex life, dealing with money issues, finding support, counting carbohydrates, and much more. Insulin Pump Therapy Demystified offers knowledgeable, informative, reassuring advice that all pump users—current and future—will find extremely valuable. Charts and tables add to this valuable insider's guide.

Insulin Pump Therapy Demystified: An Essential Guide for Everyone Pumping Insulin (Marlowe Diabetes Library)

Reference

Da Capo Lifelong Books

Enrich your wedding with your own creative use of Jewish ritual and tradition. 
Wedding planning can be a stressful experience. Keeping track of all the details―deciding who to invite, choosing a caterer, arranging the reception―can sometimes lead to a couple forgetting about the bigger picture and the significance of this day in their lives: A joyous occasion that should reflect not only your personality, but your values, as well. The Creative Jewish Wedding Book brings your complete wedding planning into focus. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer helps you express your individuality and spirituality on your wedding day. Whether your plans are traditional or alternative, whether you are planning your first or second marriage, she provides the tools you need to look at and think about ritual and tradition in new and innovative ways.
<ul>
<li>Insights and reflections from a broad range of couples who have created their own distinctive weddings </li> <li>Practical hands-on techniques and ideas for creating many of the ritual objects connected to a Jewish wedding―from designing your own ketubah, to making paper for invitations, to fashioning the chuppah
</li> <li>How to express your spiritual life and values through your ceremony </li> <li>An up-to-date guide to wedding resources in the Jewish world </li>
</ul>
Inspiring and useful, The Creative Jewish Wedding Book can help you reclaim your wedding day from the whirlwind of details and bring out the honesty and integrity you desire in your wedding experience.

The Creative Jewish Wedding Book: A Hands-On Guide to New & Old Traditions, Ceremonies & Celebrations

Jewish Lights

The Creative Jewish Wedding Book (2nd Edition): A Hands-On Guide to New & Old Traditions, Ceremonies & Celebrations

Enrich your wedding with your own creative use of Jewish ritual and tradition. Wedding planning can be a stressful experience. Keeping track of all the details―deciding who to invite, choosing a caterer, arranging the reception―can sometimes lead to a couple forgetting about the bigger picture and the significance of this day in their lives: a joyous occasion that should reflect not only your personality, but your values, as well. Updated and expanded, The Creative Jewish Wedding Book, 2nd Edition, brings your complete wedding planning into focus. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer helps you express your individuality and spirituality on your wedding day. Whether your plans are traditional or alternative, whether you are planning your first or second marriage, she provides the tools you need to look at and think about ritual and tradition in new and innovative ways including: <ul>
<li>Insights and reflections from a broad range of couples who have created their own distinctive weddings </li> <li>Practical hands-on techniques and ideas for creating many of the ritual objects connected to a Jewish wedding―from designing your own ketubah, to making paper for invitations, to fashioning the chuppah
</li> <li>How to express your spiritual life and values through your ceremony―now updated with more eco-friendly tips and suggestions </li> <li>An up-to-date guide to wedding resources in the Jewish world </li>
</ul>

2011 National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA): Honors Award, Parenting Resources  For kids who need extra help with sensory integration, motor, language, communication, and attention skills, cooking offers a multitude of opportunities to help them work on these skills while having fun. Professional cooking teacher and parent of a son with autism, Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer, shows how, with a little planning and preparation, parents and teachers can make cooking a rich learning experience, as well as a chance to connect with their child or student. THE KITCHEN CLASSROOM includes a book for parents and teachers with 32 quick and tasty gluten-free (GF) and casein-free (CF) recipes with specific teaching tips and a color photo of each finished dish. Also included is a CD-ROM with simple step-by-step instructions and almost 500 color photos illustrating the process of each recipe in detail so kids (readers and nonreaders) can follow along, see what happens next, and practice doing some steps on their own. Print the photo sequences and put them in a binder for future use, or view them on your laptop during cooking sessions.  THE KITCHEN CLASSROOM engages kids of all ages (as young as 18 months) and can be used with students with a variety of developmental or learning disabilities. Instructions in the book include handy icons that tell parents and teachers what skill can be practiced at what stage of the cooking process. Kneading dough, breaking eggs, pouring, stirring, measuring--all these activities offer the chance for sensory input and to practice language, math, motor, and social skills. Even shopping for ingredients or cleaning up together provides teachable moments and builds independence. Advice on safety in the kitchen, making easy substitutions, and adapting activities to meet the needs of different children makes this a complete resource.  Just as Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer cherishes the tradition of cooking with her own children as she did with her grandmother, other families can discover the satisfaction of making meals together and building healthy eating habits. THE KITCHEN CLASSROOM book and CD-ROM give families and teachers everything they need to get cooking and building skills for a lifetime!

The Kitchen Classroom: 32 Visual GFCF Recipes to Boost Developmental Skills

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Special Diet

Woodbine House

Enrich your wedding with your own creative use of Jewish ritual and tradition.  Wedding planning can be a stressful experience. Keeping track of all the details―deciding who to invite, choosing a caterer, arranging the reception―can sometimes lead to a couple forgetting about the bigger picture and the significance of this day in their lives: a joyous occasion that should reflect not only your personality, but your values, as well.  Updated and expanded, The Creative Jewish Wedding Book, 2nd Edition, brings your complete wedding planning into focus. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer helps you express your individuality and spirituality on your wedding day. Whether your plans are traditional or alternative, whether you are planning your first or second marriage, she provides the tools you need to look at and think about ritual and tradition in new and innovative ways including:  Insights and reflections from a broad range of couples who have created their own distinctive weddings  Practical hands-on techniques and ideas for creating many of the ritual objects connected to a Jewish wedding―from designing your own ketubah, to making paper for invitations, to fashioning the chuppah How to express your spiritual life and values through your ceremony―now updated with more eco-friendly tips and suggestions  An up-to-date guide to wedding resources in the Jewish world

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The Little Gate-Crasher: The Life and Photos of Mace Bugen

The Little Gate-Crasher: Festival Edition: The Life and Photos of Mace Bugen

Reflection, Expression, Courage: A Journal For Parents On The Special Needs Journey

Insulin Pump Therapy Demystified: An Essential Guide for Everyone Pumping Insulin (Marlowe Diabetes Library)

The Creative Jewish Wedding Book: A Hands-On Guide to New & Old Traditions, Ceremonies & Celebrations

The Creative Jewish Wedding Book (2nd Edition): A Hands-On Guide to New & Old Traditions, Ceremonies & Celebrations

The Kitchen Classroom: 32 Visual GFCF Recipes to Boost Developmental Skills

The Creative Jewish Wedding Book (2nd Edition): A Hands-On Guide to New & Old Traditions, Ceremonies & Celebrations