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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.

Today, we waited. I’m the opposite of good and patient when it comes to waiting for big things. For anything, really. I get twitchy and itchy, and my mind goes to terrible places. I can’t help but visualize each far-off, not-even-a-percent-of-a-percent likely to happen “what-if” scenarios. Then, as if I control fate with my thoughts, […]

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Age is relative in that we never feel all that different from the way we did years ago. We’re older, wiser, but still us-us. Sometimes, we catch a glimpse of ourselves in a car window and don’t recognize the face reflected. We wonder who we are, but when we lean in super-close to the mirror […]

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The first day back to school means a fresh start, sharp pencils, and the promise of leaves crunching underfoot in current 80 degree weather. It’s saying goodbye to last year and to babies who are no longer babies. It’s happiness, and grief for moments gone by. It’s  wondering whether summer vacation was memorable enough. The […]

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There’s a photo floating around social media and in the news. It’s a “First Day of School” photo, but not like any I’ve shared. It’s not like the one I’ll likely share next week of my own kid heading back to school. This photo’s of a little girl sitting on the floor with a slice […]

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Now and again, each of us is a hero. It’s in small, in-the-moment acts, like paying for a person behind us in line. It’s in big more-planned things, like volunteering at places that break our hearts because it’s not fair that privilege and circumstance are the only things that stand between us being the volunteer […]

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There are places on earth and moments in time when you know you’re part of everything. You feel life as it is now, as it was, as it will always be. You’re connected to everything, and everyone. The good and the bad. You’re both small and vast, and think of everybody and see them being […]

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