Happy Look Up Day! In 2010, I started Look Up Day to remind me of a powerful lesson I learned along a nine-month recovery from a freak tree accident in New York's Hudson River Valley. Celebrated each 27th to coincide with the date of the accident (9/27/09), I share Look Up Day and its two…
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Look Up Day – I’m Thankful For
On this Look Up Day, which happens to also be Thanksgiving, I wanted to share with you a piece of my powerful story that I wrote about in When All Balls Drop. In the vignette below, "I'm Thankful For..." I describe how special Thanksgiving of 2009 was at my mom's home in Massachusetts. Only two…
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When All Balls Drop Started 5 Years Ago
On a seemingly normal fall day, 5 years ago, in New York's Hudson River Valley, a nearly 1,000 pound tree limb struck me, breaking my neck and leaving me unconscious for days. Over my multi-month recovery in New York and Massachusetts, I dealt with not only the traumatic accident, but also that my husband was…
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Happy Look Up Day – Reading From When All Balls Drop in Hanalei Bay, Kauai
Happy Look Up Day my clan! On this Look Up Day, I wanted to share with you a beautiful and inspirational location, Hanalei Bay in Kauai, as well as read to you a vignette from When All Balls Drop, "Creating a Holiday: Look Up Day." To enjoy the view and the reading, please click below.…
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Happy Look Up Day – Let’s Groove
I invite you once again to my backyard, this time from the comforts of my hammock, where I share my story, why I created Look Up Day, and the concept of looking up! I share Look Up Day—the twenty-seventh of every month—with you. So, please join me, receive a free forty-page excerpt of When All…
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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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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…
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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…
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Look Up Day Abroad
This Look Up Day, I celebrate abroad with new friends in New Zealand, you (virtually), and of course my clan wherever they may be: Midwest, Florida, Spain, New England, Arizona, Cuba, Hawaii, or New York. Every 27th of the month, I share Look Up Day with you to remind you to: 1) Be aware of…
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Look Up Day and Pictures
Celebrated every 27th of the month, I created Look Up Day in 2010 to remind us all of a powerful lesson I learned from a life-changing accident nearly five years ago. In order to honor this heightened perspective and knowledge, I share Look Up Day with you. It is a day to be aware of…
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