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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.

Here in the US, it’s Father’s Day this weekend. I won’t be able to tell my dad how much he means to me on Sunday, so, I thought I’d make an attempt to do so, here. Dear Perekums, You’ve always believed in me, Dad. Even when, and especially when, I didn’t believe in myself. I […]

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It’s been more than a year since I started the Our Land Series and I have to say that I’m honored and amazed at the incredible perspectives and stories you’ve all shared with me here. I appreciate each viewpoint and love that we, together, are helping to raise awareness and empathy for special needs, autism, body […]

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In just a few hours, I’m going to BlogU. I’m catching up on some work this morning, haven’t packed, haven’t showered, and want to finish this post before leaving, but I’m excited. I think it’s going to be a lot of fun. Getting to meet blog friends in person and see the few I’ve already […]

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Today’s Our Land post has been brought to you by my amazingly touching and funny Listen to Your Mother DC co-reader, Lisa Cadigan. Lisa blogs at My Daily Presents, and runs Cadigan Creative, a site whose mission is to foster community, art, inclusion, and making a difference in this world through art. Sound a bit like Our Land? To […]

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It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve posted a true Thankful post. Sure, I reminded everybody that grammar matters recently, but haven’t shared much about my own life and what I’m thankful for. I want to do so today though, as it’s our ONE YEAR anniversary/birthday thing of Thankful. Can you imagine? I’m thankful […]

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Years ago, when I was still young enough to know pretty much everything but physics and chemistry because hello totally boring school subjects that were clearly meant for Other People, I was convinced that women my age were whiners. I remember a couple of nice women at work who would sit at our communal lunch […]

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