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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.

The short answer to the question “Is it ever okay to cheat?” is no. But there are worse cheating digressions than others, certainly. There’s the obviously obvious. Such as, you know. Don’t cheat on your spouse. If this song means a little too much to you? Then you need to maybe rethink your life. Or […]

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I lived for 37 years before meeting my husband. 37 years is a lot of years. At times, it’s hard to imagine the thoughts, dreams, hopes, and heartbreaks of then-me.  Then-me seems vague, somehow. Now-me, and Mom-me are so righthere and rightnow that I forget how very much past darkness, and past lightnesses, have helped […]

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Friends! Thank you for being here. I’m so happy to introduce you to an amazing writer, friend and Our Land advocate today. I can’t remember how I met Kelly, but I think it may have been on Twitter. Regardless, Kelly is super-fabulous, a teacher, is passionate about literacy and education, and believes that ALL kids deserve […]

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Once, there was a ten-year old girl. She liked to sing. She liked to sing, and she liked it, a lot. Because she was a prisoner of her parent’s taste in music, she sang what they played. She found that she liked what they played. She had a dad who was gagety, which meant that they […]

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