I’ll be honest.  I don’t really like to read that much.  Maybe it’s because I got so burned out in graduate school having to read so many books cover to cover that weren’t that interesting to me?  Maybe it’s because I enjoyed watching Sesame Street and Electric Company better than reading Nancy Drew as a [...]

My sister is developmentally disabled.  She is diagnosed with cerebral palsy, mental retardation and autism, but the last of these diagnoses has not always been a part of her life—something I only came to remember in the past few weeks.  Here’s my autism story.
It was late in the 1980s when the movie, Rain Man, came [...]

For those of you out there who might follow this blog on a regular basis, you have probably noticed that we took a one week hiatus without any new posts last week.  My sincerest apologies to anyone who enjoys seeing our bi-weekly updates.  In the past twelve months, it’s the first time we’ve “goofed” quite [...]

Over the summer, we launched a new marketing endeavor called “The Point” to try to capture the attention of those in our community who may not know that much about who we are or what we do.  Now we’re taking it a step further in offering special one hour tours highlighting the ARC Marion campus [...]

For seven years, two local businessmen have teamed up to put on a golf event benefiting ARC Marion and the Heart of Florida Hope Foundation.  One, a mortgage broker, the other, a radio celebrity and radio station owner, but together they make up the (Matt Tabacchi) Allstate Mortgage/Brady Ackerman Golf Scramble.  It’s truly known as [...]

Yes, we mean it!  For the past 11 months we’ve brought you so many of our own stories and the stories we’ve  been seeing in the news.  Now it’s your turn… give us your stories.  Talk about issues that are pertinent to you.  Let us know your story, and we can make you a guest [...]

Now that we’ve been blogging for 11 months, it’s time to ask this question… how are we doing?  This was a new venture for ARC Marion back in September 2009, and we’ve been updating twice a week ever since…nearly 100 entries later, we want to know what you think.  What topics have been the most helpful?  [...]