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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.

Like each of us, I suppose I was many things as a teenager. Awkward, powerful, shy, brave, and all the betweens. Oh, to be able to time travel to myself back then, and impart wisdom to my teenage self.  Everything Teenagers Need to Know Your best friend’s opinion doesn’t matter. Whether it’s about the boy […]

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It’s March 26, 2020. If I remember the past 24 hours correctly, today’s the first official day of mandatory “sheltering in place” here in Colorado Springs. They announced it yesterday, but I think the orders went into place last night. Or, maybe this morning. Either way, it’s been almost two weeks since schools closed, so […]

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Life is unrecognizable. Our kids are e-learning and we’re isolated but still go shopping for toilet paper because people who realized this epidemic panic (pandemic, anybody?) would be a thing early on decided toilet paper was the item to stock up on. There’s a lot more missing than just toilet paper, but toilet paper seems […]

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We’ve all heard stories about wishes coming true leading to misfortune and doom. But what if we wish for something to happen in the future? If there’s no monkey’s paw involved, we can at least hope, right? This week’s Finish the Sentence Friday prompt is “If I could have a conversation with anybody, it’d be…” […]

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There’s power and danger in asking “What if?” More danger than power I think, although power comes with knowing we can’t take back past decisions. Power’s gained in growing through choices we regret and found in adapting to a normal we never imagined.  Tonight’s post is a re-write of Life’s Turning Points, a post I […]

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