I don’t have expensive tastes. For real. I’m content with eating store-brand corn flakes, satisfied with drinking Miller Lite Beer, comfortable driving an 8-year-old used car and wearing Levi jeans that I purchased when I had a 30%-off coupon from…
Founder and CEO at MS4MS (Mission Stadiums for Multiple Sclerosis) Welcome to “7 Questions with A Couple,” a monthly series that includes quick conversations with a variety of experts and influencers from throughout the MS community. Now that the Major League…
Don’t feel bad. We had to look up the meaning of “palaver” too. As a noun, Oxford Languages defines this as an “unnecessarily elaborate or complex procedure” or “an improvised conference between two groups, typically those without a shared language…
Everyone uses the bathroom. But for people like Dan and me who are living with Multiple Sclerosis, bladder issues can become some of the largest problems we deal with. From urgency to incontinence and trouble emptying, this basic bodily function…
OK, total transparency: Nothing about Bruce Springsteen’s newest album Letter To You inspired my recent Exclusive Content essay – A letter from my newly diagnosed self to my MS self of today – for MS Focus Magazine. For real! I…
Everybody gets angry. It’s part of who we are as living beings. But does having Multiple Sclerosis compound, elevate and intensify this reality? As two people living with MS, we wholeheartedly say yes, yes it does. In true MS speak,…
MS activist, National MS Society Black MS Experience Summit co-organizer, NMSS Michigan Chapter Trustee Welcome to “7 Questions with A Couple,” a monthly series that includes quick conversations with a variety of experts and influencers from throughout the MS community. This…
It’s often said that “things come in threes.” It is a bit non-descript as to what these “things” are and whether they are inherently bad or good. For Jennifer and me, the month of March 2021 resulted in three very…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Um, okay, you probably haven’t. Yes, you’ve read our essays posted on A Couple Takes on MS. But now you can actually hear about our experiences because Dan and I have just…
I wanted a sip of coffee this morning so I reached for the cup because, well, that’s what you do. And then I paused, because now, that’s what I do. What am I thinking? Hot coffee. Weak arms. This probably…