Ode to Juggling Life

"Juggling Life: a non-profit organization who puts on free events for kids with Crohn's, Colitis, and Cancer. Also, a fun and meaningful play on words for what we have to do throughout life--juggle many responsibilities at once. Sometimes it can feel overwhelming. Sometimes we feel we have it covered. Most of the time we teeter between chaos and order. Do we let it get the best of us or do we accept it for what it is?

Everyone I've met affiliated with this organization has been nothing short of awesome. Lou DeLauro, the founder of Juggling Life, first sought me out on Facebook in 2010 to play the 'rockstar' in his alien show for a summer camp program designed for kids with Colitis and Crohn's in a small town in Pennsylvania. It was a night to remember. I took a train from my then job in NYC to Newark where I was picked up by a guy named Andy Smith and driven to this camp in a red sports car. It sure felt like being a rock-star. The event was a huge success, and I'll never forget that particular show as it opened my eyes to a whole new world of doing something positive, meaningful, AND service oriented with music. Granted, I had done other one-off benefit/fundraising concerts in the past, but this felt different. After that first night, I volunteered at a handful of other events Juggling Life put on: Fashion Show in Dunellen, Alien Proposal Show in Dunellen, Camp in Pennsylvania, Camp Oasis in Blairstown, NJ, Homefront in Mercer County, NJ, and Good Morning America background street performance in New York City. Lou and a few members from the organization even came to do a free 30 minute program for those with developmental disabilities at the Arc Mercer when I worked for them between October 2010 and April 2014."

To read more of this article (as there are a couple paragraph's missing on purpose to direct you over to the full article at), head to: Juggling Life Article

Enjoy!