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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.

I suppose it’s possible for somebody to change her viewpoint without leaving home or meeting new people, but it’d be difficult. Maybe if she reads thousands and thousands of essays and articles with a true desire to learn and become more, she’d be able to make it happen.  But whoah, it’d be hard.   Experiences and […]

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People say dogs have no sense of time. I search my memories for proof of this but right now, I think only of our current dog, Nugget. She’s at home in her crate. Today, we have human-only places to be.   “She can hold it,” I reply, in response to questions about her bladder and bowels. […]

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As a kid, Thanksgiving meant driving from Denver to Colorado Springs to gather with my mom’s family or my dad’s brother’s family. I can’t remember whether we ever saw them both on the same day, but suppose we must have.  Although I can’t tell you the year, I remember the day I didn’t eat turkey. […]

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Fearing Heights This photo makes my stomach drop. I’m terrified of heights and am pretty sure my fear has gotten worse as I’ve gotten older. “How in the world did you jump out of an airplane?” my husband has asked. More than once. At 13,000 feet, height doesn’t feel scary any longer. Up there, it’s […]

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I was going through old Halloween posts because Finish the Sentence Friday goes live in mere minutes, and I haven’t started. Haven’t even thought about it honestly. Also? I’m so in love with old Halloween photos. Robert’s wearing a fake belly, in case you were wondering. Yes, he’s a weird weirdo. This still cracks me […]

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