Ladies and gentlemen I give you great writer, funny-man and hard core New Yorker, Tim O'Mara. JB: Please tell the masses reading this interview what life was like for Tim O'Mara. And did anybody call you Timmy as wee lad? TO: I grew up in suburban Long Island, the fourth of five kids in a very Catholic family. There were so many kids my age living within walking/biking distance I was never at a loss for things to do—most of them baseball-related. And yes, my whole family call me Timmy. Now there's only a handful of people who do—including you, which I take as a sign that we may actually be related. JB: How old were you when the lightning bolt of writing struck you? Was there a specific event? A book you read? Movie? Bookish damsel who kissed thine rosy cheek? TO: I've been writing one way or another, my whole life. I loved writing assignments in school. (If nothing else, they took me away from the math work.) I was in a lot of plays in high school and found my