Robert-Andrew Smith

Do you want to change the world?

You'll find me hanging out a lot more at the beach these days since moving less than a block to the sands of the Pacific Ocean, dividing my time between avoiding becoming a reality show TV star and not working at one, having fun living fast and furious on the West Coast, taking walks with my dogs, working out at the gym or running on the beach daily, getting more tatoos, and spending quality time with my partner Juan, our kids Bruce and Roxy, and close friends. Curently I am reading "The Legacy of Sgt. John Palmer", an accurate chronical of my family's lineage going back 14 generations to their arrival in the Massachusetts Colony of Rowley. My life's travels always take me back to my hometown of Los Angeles California where I have some of the best friends in the world.

Recently, I learned something crazy, and it has a lot to do with my outlook on life, the people I choose to be with, how I conduct myself, and why I have fun everyday as if it were my last. I learned that when Death knocks on your door and comes to take someone very close to you like your mother, it takes that word "Mom" from your life forever too. Right now, my mother who is somewhere between this world and the next, taught me many things when she was here with me. She always used to say you can always find something truly important in an ordinary minute when you talk to people from all walks of life. Maybe one day she'll give me one more ordinary minute with her. Until then, I listen to my mothers echo when it's real quiet, and I'm reminded that there's a story behind everything. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes the stories are hard and heartbreaking, but behind all stories is your mothers story, because hers is where yours begins.

Let's change the world together in an ordinary minute, why not?