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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.

There’s magic in the number seven, and power in the Ten Things of Thankful blog hop’s seventh anniversary this very week (1). Maybe, hopefully, there’s even more magic and power today in being thankful as the world crumbles and awakens.   Lizzi was the hop’s original creator, as she’d begun practicing thinking of 10 things each […]

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Will this summer be weird? Definitely. Will it be wonderful? Here’s hoping. Now that school’s officially out, drive-by complete, and library books checked out months ago returned, I’m looking ahead at what in the world we’ll do to fill summer days this year while the coronavirus continues to float around.  There was cookie cake, and […]

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I wake, thinking “just who do you think you are?” I sit with sadness as the last bits of ice in my bedside water glass settle and whisper “Who anyway?” before remembering I don’t do this anymore. Or, at least, remembering that I don’t want to do this anymore. I don’t want to feel unworthy. […]

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During this completely wacky and totally unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, people keep talking about “when things get back to normal.” Will they ever get back to normal? It’s hard to imagine we’ll simply return to a world where the Whole Foods salad bar I love so much doesn’t feel like 1,001 pairs of tongs and touch […]

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Making mom feel special on Mother’s Day this year will be more difficult than usual due to COVID-19. You can’t take her out for ice cream, or treat her with an evening out at her favorite restaurant. You can’t have friends and family over for a shared meal and game of Badminton in the yard. […]

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Almost four months ago, I chose a word of the year. I chose the word Heal. At first, I thought “Nah, too passive.” Except, I realized I love the word Heal and knew it was the perfect, exactly right-for-me-now January 2020 word. I love Heal because it implies both growth and damage. It says that […]

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