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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.

There are moments, people, and situations that I am thankful for every day.  They include Tucker, Robert, family, friends, blogging, and you. On this particular weekend, I am thankful for… Robert taking Tucker to the backyard, the carwash and the playground so that I was able to indulge in a much needed, 3-hour-long, ridiculously expensive […]

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Have you ever thought about life’s turning points? About how different your life might be had you taken a different route, a different job, chosen a different country to live in?  Would your child be the same person had you had him earlier?  Married somebody else?  Grew up with a different family?  Would you be […]

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It’s Wednesday and I am proud to feature another amazing voice in the Our Land Series which began here because you guys were beyond awesome.  Today’s post is brought to you by a good bloggie-friend of mine whose writing continually makes me feel genuine shock and awe.  Her voice is hers. It’s amazing and perceptive. […]

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Before we begin, I’d like to set the mood for this sad, sad post about failed friendship, death, and nobody noticing with a little music from the 60’s. First, we have Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles.  Eleanor Rigby met a sad and lonely end…one where nobody came and nobody was saved *sniff.* “Eleanor Rigby died […]

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I don’t have a favorite movie.  I’ve been thinking about whether I do for a few days now, and I just don’t.  While there are movies that I definitely love, many are older and their impact on me has somewhat faded.  What hasn’t faded as much are random, much-loved movie quotes because sometimes, a movie […]

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