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Author Archives: Kristi Campbell

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.

Here’s to eeking out a last-minute thankful post.  It’s been a crazy week, a crazier weekend and while I’ve been too busy and sleep deprived to think about what I’m thankful for, I realize that these are the moments in life that are the exactly perfect times in which to be thankful.  So here goes. […]

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If you had a chance to go back in time and do something over, would you? Do you have regrets? I have a tattoo on my ankle that says “To Die With No Regrets” (yes, I triple-checked the Chinese characters after hearing the horror stories of tattoo artists giving you the “I’m an asshole” one […]

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Those of you who have been here for a while know that on Wednesdays, I feature different voices, chosen specifically to make all of us think, wonder, and appreciate differing viewpoints and abilities. As a mother to a perfectly perfect boy with probably-autism, I’ve changed my mission in life from whatever it used to be […]

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Ah, the 80’s.  They were a time in my life that brought so much remembered change. They seemed to last forever. (Insert Bryan Adam’s Summer of 69 here). From 1979 and having braless nub-boobs to 1989 when I was old enough to drink 3.2 beer legally. Good times. 1980-1982: Middle school. Puberty. My last year […]

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If you’ve visited Finding Ninee in the past week or so, you know that in addition to today being the day the US adopted the Declaration of Independence, it is also the day, four years ago, that Tucker made his debut appearance in the world and forever altered and expanded my personal knowledge of love […]

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It’s Wednesday and that means that you get a break from reading my drivel because I’m honored to feature another amazing author in today’s Our Land Series. For those of you new to Finding Ninee, it began here because well, of you.  You. You people are amazing.  Today’s post has been authored by Just Jennifer (AKA Jenni, Jen, Jen-Jen, Jeffiner and other […]

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