Author: TheOtherMS

You know that feeling when you are playing a game and the hourglass is getting close to emptying to the bottom and you start to hurry and maybe get one more correct answer in before your turn is over? I never really thought about life like that until I had kids.   When you are young … Continue reading Racing Time

A few years ago my brother in law took an internship in San Francisco. It was a CRAZY move by all of us back here on the East Coast.  Not because we didn’t think it was awesome, it was just something we were not capable of.  It was also a realization from my mother in … Continue reading Enjoy The Middle

When I was 10 I met the greatest baseball coach there ever was.   If you ever had Mr. Larkin as a coach you probably agree.  I got picked by him in the draft for that year; his team was called Pond Plain.  We were green and yellow for colors.  I knew nothing about the league … Continue reading Mr L

My parents had some interesting parenting techniques back when I was growing up. I was their first child so as some of you know, with the first one you have NO clue what you are doing.  The ideas you have are basically done to avoid damaging them forever but also just getting them to stop … Continue reading The Alcoholic

Benjamin "Benny" Franklin Rodriguez, Alan "Yeah-Yeah" McClennan, , Tommy "Repeat" Timmons, Timmy Timmons, Scotty Smalls, Michael "Squints" Palledorous , Hamilton "Ham" Porter, Kenny DeNunez, Bertram "Grover" Weeks If you know me, you know I am obsessed with this movie.   Probably seen it 375 times, and I think I might be underestimating.  On a random night … Continue reading The Great Hambino

Music is a funny thing.   It can bring your mind right back to a specific time in your life.  You can remember what you were wearing, who you were with.  The older I get the more I listen to the music that I thought my parents were dorks for listening to when I was growing … Continue reading Stay

A couple years ago, I decided to change my outlook on life wherever possible. I was incredibly negative about almost everything, probably just an awful person to be around. I did the therapy thing, and it would help me for a day or two but then I would slip back into just being a negative … Continue reading Serenity Now

When you are an 8 year old kid, you want to be 10 to be able to play baseball. When you are 13 you want to be 16 to drive, and 18 you want to be 21 to drink (legally). Then everyone tells you it is all downhill from there. Work till your dead....I don’t … Continue reading Stages

Make traditions...they are good for your soul. Each Week my 13 year old daughter and I watch Survivor together. We make the movie theater butter popcorn, put our phones away, and just stare at the TV. The show is predicable, we know all the moves, and mostly we know who’s going to tribal council before … Continue reading Traditions

I read a book one time called The Other Wes Moore. It was one of those times you get a book and you feel like it was written just with you in mind. The Other Wes Moore is a narrative non-fiction story that chronicles the lives of two young African-American men that share the same … Continue reading The Other MS