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Author Archives: Kristi Campbell

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.

Sometimes, I think about how different childhood looked in the 80’s and 90’s from how it looks today. Technology, now so easily accessible, has changed our worlds. It’s changed how we parent, given us reasons to stay at home when our children are young and an equal amount of reasons about how important it is […]

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It was from the comfort of my home and in the quiet of my office, my son sleeping upstairs, that I texted my friend Kerri, while she rode in her car, late at night, driving from Massachusetts to Georgia. She’d told me earlier that month that they’d found a doctor willing to do further DNA testing on her […]

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I can’t remember whether or not I checked the mail this afternoon or on which days I have meetings next week, yet I remember feelings, outfits, the weather and the sounds during certain moments from my past. People talk about memories that haunt them. That idea brings to mind imagined images of tragedy. Of fear […]

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Today’s Our Land author isn’t somebody that I knew prior to her submitting today’s story but I’m so glad that I know her now. Stephanie’s heart and advocacy is nothing short of miraculous and her dedication to raising awareness in the special needs community is what Our Land is about. Our Land: #Justice For Ethan and […]

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