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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.

My father’s father was an engineer and an inventor. He made, and lost, millions of dollars during his lifetime through a variety of business ventures.  I remember my dad and I having a conversation when I was about 13 years old about what I wanted to be when I grew up. Back then, I wanted […]

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Friends. If you’re like me (which, for your sake, I hope not because I’m a disorganized mess with shit in every possible corner of my house), you may store toys in your pantry. You may be crapping up your lovely custom-built bookcases with a bunch of stuff that you don’t need. Things like DVDs, audio […]

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It’s easy to say “I will be better.” It’s not as easy to get there. Think about if, right now, you had five whole hours to do anything in the world – there are no kids that need you, you’re not hungry, and you’re not under a deadline. You’re not tired, and you’re showered. You’re […]

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Hi friends. I’m so happy to say that this week’s Our Land contribution is by my awesome good friend Joy, who blogs about the reality and the beauty of her life with her little boy Sunny.  She’s heartfelt, honest, and one of the sweetest people you will ever meet among bloggers.  I’m not exaggerating – […]

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It’s funny to think back and feel like the year 2000 wasn’t very long ago, and then realize that the freak-out over Y2K ended more than 13 years ago. I remember 1999. People were worried that the world would end due to a computer overtaking us because we were too dumb to realize that the whole […]

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