Category Archives: Blog

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…
Read more

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…
Read more

Choose Your Own Adventure Minneapolis Minnesota

Choose Your Own Adventure Minneapolis Minnesota
Did you read choose your own adventure novels when you were a kid? The books are set up to tell an adventure with twists and turns that give you the option to create your own path and story. You arrive at the end of each chapter with a decision to make between different activities. You…
Read more

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…
Read more

Look Up Day – The Shoe on the Other Foot

Look Up Day – The Shoe on the Other Foot
Although Look Up Day started as a way for me to reframe various scares that were happening in my life: traumatic accident, long, out-of-home recovery from a broken neck, relationship turmoil, relearning tasks as an adult, and lost of career, I want to share this day and philosophy with you and others. Celebrated each 27th…
Read more

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…
Read more

Kuranda Scenic Railway – Adventure Travel Queensland Australia

Kuranda Scenic Railway – Adventure Travel Queensland Australia
At the tail end of a whirlwind, eight-day, maiden voyage tour to Down Under, including Tasmania, Sydney, the Blue Mountains, Ayers Rock, the Great Barrier Reef, and Cairns, I had traveled by catamaran, helicopter, bus, foot, cable car, plane, semi-submersible, and car. I was short one of the most pleasant ways to travel; yes, you…
Read more

Adventure Travel to the Bay of Islands New Zealand

Adventure Travel to the Bay of Islands New Zealand
Get out your bucket list! The North Island of New Zealand and its Bay of Islands must be on it. For those that haven't yet traveled to the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, let me show you what you're missing. Get on with it! (And, for those of you that have already visited this outstanding adventure…
Read more

Inspiration to Walkabout to Australia

Inspiration to Walkabout to Australia
Having returned from an adventure filled walkabout to Australia, I wanted to highlight the character from my memoir When All Balls Drop - The Upside of Losing Everything that spurred my many healing travels nearly five years ago.  Thank you Patrice! Originally from Chicago, Patrice was not only well-traveled, lively, and kind, but also had the best…
Read more

Look Up Day – Have You Had a Look Up Moment?

Look Up Day – Have You Had a Look Up Moment?
Happy Look Up Day everyone! For some of you, this is a new concept. However, there are many who have been celebrating Look Up day for years. For those new to Look Up Day, welcome. Look Up Day is celebrated every 27th of the month to remind you to: 1) Be aware of your surroundings…
Read more