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Looking Up Feature on When All Balls Drop by The Garden Island

Looking Up Feature on When All Balls Drop by The Garden Island
LIHUE — On Sept. 27, 2009, Heidi Siefkas was visiting upstate New York’s Hudson River valley. She was happily married. A globetrotting marketing and public relations executive. She had everything. “In one fell swoop a 1,000-pound tree limb fell — healthy tree — while I was taking out the trash,” Siefkas said. “Broke my neck…
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When All Balls Drop Spotted in NYC – Where You Are Reading It?

When All Balls Drop Spotted in NYC – Where You Are Reading It?
FYI: A couple of advanced copies of When All Balls Drop: The Upside of Losing Everything have been spotted pre-release, this September. It isn't a surprise that a New York City bookworm sent in these photos as the book begins in New York's Hudson River Valley. Most New Yorkers would recognize the leading image of…
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Look at What the Storms Blew In – When All Balls Drop in Print

Look at What the Storms Blew In – When All Balls Drop in Print
Having left South Florida to return to my home in Kauai earlier this week, I thought I had escaped hurricane season. However, it seems not to be the case with a double whammy of hurricanes heading this way, Iselle and Julio. After battling the crowds at Costco, the store on Kauai, I believe we are…
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Inspirational Female Authors in Writing When All Balls Drop

Inspirational Female Authors in Writing When All Balls Drop
As I talk about my memoir, When All Balls Drop, many ask me about the process of writing, in particular where I found my inspiration. Since my book is non-fiction, I didn't have to brainstorm about content; however, I did need to come up with the guts. I can't lie. Although my story is powerful and…
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Look Up – My Mantra

Look Up – My Mantra
This year, I completed writing a memoir of my life change, which happened nearly five years ago. It is entitled When All Balls Drop - The Upside of Losing Everything and will be released this fall. In it, I share my amazing story where in an unpredictable, split second, my life as I knew it…
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Homecoming

Homecoming
Every summer I make a pilgrimage to one of my former homes whether to Wisconsin for my hometown's Catfish Days celebration, South Florida after all the snow birds have already flown up North, or Beantown sporting a Red Sox cap. This year, my homecoming is to South Florida. Although happy to be back in the…
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A Conversation with Author of When All Balls Drop

A Conversation with Author of When All Balls Drop
As a more intimate way to get to know me and my story, I thought it only appropriate to invite you to have a conversation in my backyard. Let me share with you why I wrote my inspirational memoir, When All Balls Drop, its take aways, and who helped me along the way. I look…
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Upright Locked Position

Upright Locked Position
In a "VIP" row near the airplane lavatories with no option of reclining on a five-thousand mile trip from Kauai to South Florida earlier this week, I flashed back to my recovery from a freak tree accident in Upstate New York in 2009. A tree limb fell on a seemingly normal autumn day breaking my…
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When All Balls Drop Cover Selected

When All Balls Drop Cover Selected
Back from over a month in New Zealand and Australia, I couldn't wait to get home to share the news. Drum roll please... The cover for my inspirational memoir, When All Balls Drop - The Upside of Losing Everything has been selected! After many comments from my followers, friends, peers, and family about the four…
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