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Hey You Remember to Look Up

[caption id="attachment_3673" align="alignright" width="300"] Look Up from Cuba[/caption] As I witness people walking across the street glued to their phones or catch myself Snapchatting while on a mini-getaway to the Bahamas, I have to slap myself and virtually you all too. What are we doing? Are we living life in front of a screen instead…
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To Write Well Live an Adventurous Life, One Worth Writing About

[caption id="attachment_3685" align="alignright" width="300"] Savoring a mint tea in Tangier, Morocco[/caption] A little over a year ago, a wise peer author reminded me that Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway had the writer's life down pat. Yes, it is easier to write well when you are living a life worth writing about. As you know, I…
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FIGT – Friday Is Good Therapy

  WooHoo! The time has come. Drum roll, please... It's Friday Is Good Therapy time! Now, if you haven't heard of FIGT. Well, it's about time you do. Background: Roughly five years ago, I flipped the traditional TGIF to FIGT; thus, Friday Is Good Therapy was created. What was I thinking? As Friday typically marks the…
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Heidi Siefkas’ Wins National Indie Excellence Award for When All Balls Drop

Last Friday, when I arrived in Miami from Havana, Cuba, I was pleasantly surprised to see this in my inbox. CONGRATULATIONS!  You are a Winner in the 10th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards in the category of Self-Help-Motivational for When All Balls Drop. Your powerful story truly embodies the excellence that this award was created…
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My Best Souvenir – Bet You Can’t Guess

With many adventures under my belt, you can imagine I have souvenirs from all corners of the world. I have rugs from Peru, sculptures from the Dominican Republic, a sombrero grande from Mexico, and jewelry from Australia and New Zealand to Cuba. With that said, I've always been a person that "tries" to travel and…
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Are you curious? Where am I off to next?

One of the most common questions I get is, “Where are you off to next?” This week, I'm heading back to Cuba. Almost every two weeks, I will be taking a flight from Miami to Cuba that only takes forty-five minutes, but transports me to another era. However, Cuba isn't the only adventure on my…
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The Secret to Turning 81

This week, my father is turning eighty-one. Ok, for those of you that know him or have read about him in my books, you know that he is really eighty-one going on twenty-one in maturity and just general behavior. Now, my father won’t say that the only secret to turning eighty-one is acting young, but…
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