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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 recently asked what you think that you can do, this week, right now, to make our world one that’s filled with more acceptance, empathy, and wonder. Our Land is always, but especially this week, a multitude of  voices, stories, and perceptions, each hoping to inspire both thought and action. Empathy. Wonder. Today’s Our Land […]

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It’s been a few weeks since I did a thankful post, and I’m very thankful for the fact that my co-hosts have been forgiving of that (and thankful for the article that Zoe sent me). I am beyond thankful for the fact that I was able to have THREE margaritas with an IRL friend recently, and did […]

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Which was the best decade? For me, each one that I’ve experienced holds powerful memories and life-changing moments. So, I say all of them are the best decades. 2010’s: Netflix Original Series (new to me so it counts), and me pretty much having no clue what any of the trends are other than that the […]

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Today’s Our Land is a Part Deux by by Lizzi of Considerings; a follow-up from last week’s.  Last week’s had a couple of people commenting on how they did not see how it related to Our Land. They were justified in wondering, and rightfully confused, as it wasn’t my typical Our Land. If there are readers out […]

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The word autism entered my heart as a whisper. It later entered my brain as a possibility. Later still, it entered my life. I worried, bought a book on autism, devoured it, and then felt like that must not be what my son has. He was nothing like the boy in the book.  “Maybe,” I […]

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  Today’s Our Land author almost needs no introduction. For regular followers of this series, you know my deep-thinking, amazing, brilliant, and, at times, tormented friend Lizzi from Considerings. For those of you who do not know her, check her out, and read her previous Our Land contributions, here, and here. Lizzi not only Believes […]

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