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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.

For this week’s Finish the Sentence Friday, Kenya suggested sharing 10 photos from our phones, which I thought would be easy (after all, I could show you 10 of puppy Nugget and be done with it because she really is that adorable). Turns out, it was more difficult than I thought. I ended up choosing […]

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I wish schools (and life) had every child’s best interests in mind, but they’re limited by staffing inadequacies and are forced to put resources where they’re needed most. I get that. I’m also less than thrilled to be facing this reality at Tucker’s new school. Special Ed Support Problems, Some People Suck, & Changes I […]

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Years ago, when Chief and I found one another, he was about 18 months old and fully trained. The story the guy at the shelter told me was that he was a pure-bread white German Shepherd that’d gone through an extensive obedience program. According to him, as Chief got older, he was less white and […]

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Being Left Behind “It’s easier to leave than to be left,” I cried. Staying meant seeing the places we’d laughed in, loved in. Leaving felt exotic and brave. Staying? Yuck. He held my hand, fingers woven together. “I promise we’ll see this again” he said. “Our connection will never be broken.” I agreed. “Let’s get […]

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They say nobody really changes. In some ways, I suppose that’s true. People show us who they are and it’s important to believe them, rather than hope we can make a jealous, possessive person sane, for example. But as the seasons change, don’t we change a little with them? “Seasons change and so do I.” […]

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What it Feels Like to be Shy You want the room to swallow you. You’re not good enough, smart enough, pretty enough. You’re not enough. Shy is hiding your shaking hands. Being shy is feeling each atom of blood rush though pounding ears. It’s wishing somebody would see you and say “hi” while simultaneously wishing […]

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