Category For What It’s Worth

The Importance of Difficulty

People taking a break from roller skating listening to a boom box.

Life is full of challenges, and it’s important to face them. Hard things happen to everyone unless they’re overprotected from them. In fact, we often learn the most during tough times. But we don’t usually talk about how important challenges…

My ROAD Goes to TASH

Welcome to the latest For What It’s Worth. In this post, I am writing about the My ROAD team’s trip to the 2025 TASH conference in Denver, CO in December.  TASH was founded in 1975, and its mission is to advance equity, opportunity and inclusion for people with disabilities, with a focus on those with the most…

The Ride Ahead

In this For What It’s Worth, I recommend the film The Ride Ahead, which follows Sam Habib as he starts college and rolls into adulthood. The film shows how support, whether quiet or easy to see, helps us take risks,…