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Marcus’ Speech at the Be Beautiful Be Yourself Event (Video)

2018-12-02T11:45:16-06:00Categories: Grown Ups & Downs|Tags: , , , |

SO, it’s been a week now.

One week since Mr. Marcus Sikora did his second runway walk at the Be Beautiful, Be Yourself fashion show. I can tell you now that at the event last year, Marcus told me that he wanted to give his own speech at this event. That it was not my idea. I even, gently, asked him a few times, “Are you sure?”

His answer, “Yes.”

So, he did.

Marcus in a top hat speaking at the podium of the Global Down Syndrome Event

We shared the video of his

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Actor, Singer, PB&J Connoisseur – Introducing 2017 Be Beautiful Be Yourself Ambassador: Marcus Sikora

2017-09-21T10:32:46-05:00Categories: In the News|Tags: , |

From the Global Down Syndrome Foundation official release:

As an author, singer, actor and self-advocate, Marcus Sikora has already accomplished more in his life than most other 26-year-olds. Now he’s gathering yet another accomplishment as the 2017 Be Beautiful Be Yourself Ambassador.

When it comes to describing the Nebraska native, many people tend to use the word creative. The description aligns perfectly with Marcus’ ambitions, in 2015 he released his first animated short and children’s book Black Day: The Monster Rock Band to wildly positive reviews.

“I’ve always liked to make stories,” Marcus

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Starter Press for Be Beautiful, Be Yourself

2017-11-05T17:29:48-06:00Categories: In the News|Tags: , , |

Global Down Syndrome Foundation’s fashion show brings out the stars

Models with Down syndrome, such as 2017 Global Down Syndrome Foundation Ambassador Marcus Sikora, will be joined on the runway of next month’s Be Beautiful Be Yourself Fashion Show by such celebrities as Oscar-winning actress Maris Tomei, Eva Longoria, Joe Manganiello, Tony-winning Denis O’Hare, actor-author-comedian and Global board member John C, McGinley, Jamie Foxx and more. International supermodel and apparel designer Madeleine Stuart will receive the 2017 Quincy Jones Exceptional Advocacy Award at the glamorous event.

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Be Beautiful, Be Yourself Fashion Show

2017-09-23T19:40:28-05:00Categories: |

 

We Are STOKED that Marcus is the Ambassador for this year’s Be Beautiful, Be Yourself event.

The Be Beautiful Be Yourself Fashion Show is a fundraiser for the Global Down Syndrome Foundation benefiting the Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome on the Anschutz Medical Campus and the Sie Center for Down Syndrome at Children’s Hospital Colorado.

Marcus is only one of many celebrities who will walk the red carpet and on the runway at this event. Other stars include, Jamie Foxx, Marisa Tomei,

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Last Weekend, We Were All Beautiful, with Video to Prove it

2016-11-20T13:15:02-06:00Categories: Grown Ups & Downs, In the News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Last Sunday morning I “wrote out” some of the preceding three days’ amazingness. Unsuccessfully.

Image from CNN article on the event. Jason Connolly Photographer. Image from CNN article on the event. Jason Connolly Photographer.

Bullet point version:

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Beautiful

2015-12-05T12:00:54-06:00Categories: Grown Ups & Downs|Tags: , , , |

Finish this sentence: “What I’m really trying to say is…”

Our host said – “This’ll be an easy one!”

The reason I like this prompt is it can take you down a wormhole that you didn’t know you needed to travel. The reason I don’t like this prompt is the same.

Soooo I’m late to the party (which I’m actually co-hosting, eek!) because I over-thought and over-wrote and now…

Anyway, what I’m really trying to say (with this website and all of the writing that it

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What I’m smiling at these days

2020-09-25T18:32:04-05:00Categories: Grown Ups & Downs|Tags: , , , |

Ok, first things first, #1 this video!

We are Goo Goo Dolls fans and have been since, oh…before some of you were born. (Well, probably not many under 21 reading this, but possible!) ANYway, Marcus and I have been singing along (and karaoke-ing too) to many a Goo Goo Dolls song over the years.  I even wrapped up the Goo Goo Dolls song “Iris” into a starter review of a few Broadway shows a few years ago. Marcus singing “Iris” is something that will never not rip my heart out. From

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Everyone Needs Help

2020-06-16T07:17:43-05:00Categories: Grown Ups & Downs|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

A Gift From the Universe to Change the World

coffee shop

My son, Marcus, and I have had many writing sessions and meetings with collaborators at our neighborhood coffee shop, particularly while we were working on his first book for children and the accompanying animated short. We also wrote the speech we gave at the United Nations building there earlier this year. Today I write solo and the notebook to my right has the lyric, “The universe is resting in my arms” (from Nina Gordan’s song “Tonight”) written and

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Measuring the Year

2019-12-22T11:05:32-06:00Categories: Grown Ups & Downs|Tags: , , , |

“Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure, measure a year?”

 

I measure in lessons, in losses, in failures, in wins, and of course, in words. Each of these are compiled in spreadsheets (as I force the abstract into quantifiable cells) and many bits shared right here, under the public eye. Hmm, the public forum. For those of you following along, you may recall the first post of 2019 began:

Oh. My. God. This effing January.

So, there’s that.

I didn’t “triumph” over 2019, like my public facing plan. And for 2020, I’m still

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