We’ve had a beautiful summer and fall. Now winter is peeking just around the corner. I’m kind of looking forward to it though because I’ve been on bed rest for…
Category: Commentary
Make a difference for your community, join MNCCD this fall
For the Minnesota Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (MNCCD), 2020 was a year full of the unexpected, with many new challenges and triumphs. The consortium is looking toward 2021 but…
Despite pandemic, direct support professionals continue to persevere
In the midst of the virus-centered environment which we all call home, I wanted to mention a bright spot that sometimes goes unnoticed in our communities. I’m referring to people…
Celebrating Direct Support Professionals
Caring, choice and compassion are just a few of the positive words we at MRCI prefer to use that start with “C” instead of Covid-19 or Coronavirus. A few other…
Tim's Desk - September 2020
I’m writing this month’s column on what ordinarily would be the first day of the Minnesota State Fair, but it has been suspended in the year of COVID-19. The days…
Fifty years ago this summer, he began his life-changing journey
It happened as if it were yesterday. August 19, 1970, a Wednesday. I was 18 years old fresh out of high school when I borrowed a co-worker’s motorcycle. The motorcycle…