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Kristi Rieger Campbell's passion is writing and drawing stupid-looking pictures for her blog, Finding Ninee. It began with a memoir about her special-needs son Tucker, abandoned when she read that a publisher would rather shave a cat than read another memoir. Kristi writes for a variety of parenting websites including Huffington Post Parents, has been published in several popular anthologies, received 2014 BlogHer's Voice of the Year People's Choice Award, and was a proud cast member of the DC Listen to Your Mother show. Find her on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.

THEN December 30, 2021, the eve of the final night of the year, another day, another second A blog post titled “What Not to Say Regarding a Loss People Tell You is No Big Deal” was fresh on my keyboard and in my heart. I was writing, processing, and mourning. I was ready to write. […]

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In March, we were mourning a canceled Disneyland and Universal trip for spring break. “They’re saying it’ll just be a few weeks,” we said. We waited for the pandemic to pass. Celebrated spring break at home. Did everything at home. Waited for life to be more like what we were used to with busy schedules, […]

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Who isn’t burned out right now? If we’re not stressing about how our kids (my kid, anyway) will learn online with accountability (!) for seven hours at a time, it’s wondering whether it’s okay to have family and close friends over for a backyard cookout. Whether outdoor ice cream shops are safe-ish, and whether a […]

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My son builds worlds in Minecraft and I’m jealous. He’s got this world where the non-player-characters (NPC) are on virtual reality headsets, an annoyed worker who is the employee of the month, and they can pretty much fly and travel to wherever. Teleport even. I wish I could teleport. I want to travel. Wanderlust, Traveling, […]

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Everything feels like a slog these days. I’d rather ignore my feelings and binge-watch Netflix instead. In years other than the dumpster fire that 2020 is, we’d be going through last year’s school supplies, buying items we don’t have, and getting excited for fall leaves and new friendships while hoping middle school is kinder than […]

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