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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.

This week’s Our Land Series post was written by somebody I’ve never met, but would like to. Why? Because she’s IRL (in real life) friends with my awesome friend Kenya Johnson, author of The Christopher Chronicles, and Live, Laugh, Blog (formerly known as Here’s the Thing which is sure to have a new name – same […]

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Four and a half decades ago, there was a young woman, who became pregnant, but not on purpose. She carried a baby inside of her body and inside of her heart for nine long months. She sang to that baby, she prayed for her, and, when the time came, she touched her cheek, not even […]

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When special needs lurks in the shadows of your life, at first, quietly, and then, more forcefully, knock-knock-knocking on your door, you want to slam the front door in his face, and run quickly downstairs to lock the back door before that wily, tenacious asshole figures out his next entry point. You double-bolt the windows. […]

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I feel incredibly lucky to be able to type the words that today’s Our Land post was authored by another awesome IRL friend.  Her son Jack (not his real name) joined Tucker’s Preschool Autism Classroom more than a year ago now, I think. I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know her through play-dates, school […]

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Have you ever wondered about your unchosen choices? Wondered about a cross-country move, the branch of a career path, or maybe a blind date? Do our decisions, both large and seemingly insignificant, bring us to where we are today? I wonder how much they matter. I wonder whether they matter at all, or matter even […]

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Today’s Our Land was authored by my IRL BF Joanna, who I met through Tucker’s PAC (Preschool Autism Classroom). Her son Michael was officially diagnosed fairly early on, and, as many of you know, Tucker was not. I was lost. Confused. Alone and lonely and Joanna was the parent that I bonded with. At first, […]

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