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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.

Time passes quickly up here at my age. For the younger me’s (I so want to type me’s because I know that’s what you need to see, but I’m fairly certain that mes is correct), though, it passed much more slowly. Perhaps time, in youth, passes more slowly because we change, so much, from one […]

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There are days when thankful is hard, until it’s not.  Me, sitting here, now, procrastinating writing this post because the past few days have been less than ideal.  And yet, when I stew in regret and want to blow off this post because I’m not feeling it, I realize how important it is to remind […]

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Ah, the Fourth of July. We’ve had some good ones.  Last summer, we celebrated youth at the beach and will be doing the same next week. There’s something about sand, sun, and fireworks that make summer summer in a way that it never is up to that point. A couple of years ago, we rented […]

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What day is it?  It’s Wednesday! Wednesdays are for empathy and wonder!  I am honored (she would say honoured) to feature another excellent writer in the Our Land Series which began here because you guys were so supportive and wonderful. I’ve recently gotten to know Lizzi (aka The Considerer at Considerings) and am so very glad for it. She’s […]

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Remember Simon and Garfunkel?  They were awesome, huh?  Bridge Over Troubled Water was one of my favorites, ever. Here’s a little story for you about two dudes in the 70’s – I imagine they were listening to this song while having the following conversation. “Hey Pal, what’s up?” the guy in the stunning purple bell […]

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Yesterday, I wrote a letter to my son.  Not to him now, but to him as an old man.  Reading it reminds me to be thankful for: The time that I do have.  It is limited, but it is here.  I’m thankful for the minutes that I have and am committed to making each one […]

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