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Where the Sparks Fly. Friendship, Families and the Discovery of Customized Employment

Some of the best ideas in my life have not been born in conference rooms. They have been born in places that feel more like the wide sweep of Montana and Idaho than fluorescent lights and folding tables — places where the wonder of brainstorming in natural settings opens something in us that agendas never […]

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When the Lights Flicker Out: Government Shutdowns, Disability, and the Unseen Cost on Families.

It is Oct 1, 2025—another government shutdown. In the quiet hours before dawn, when the world still clings to hope, a mother sits on her porch, coffee growing cold, wondering: How will we manage tomorrow? For families like mine — families of disability, of high stakes, of fragile structures held together by resolve — the

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