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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 was less than perfect in the way that first-world, middle-class probably-autism visiting an over-crowded human cesspool quickly becomes less than perfect is.  Robert and I decided to run some much-needed errands in an attempt to find new Nikes for Tucker’s ginormous extra-wide stinky loved feet.  Robert suggested we go to an outlet mall. I […]

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I started blogging because I was lost and confused.  Terrified.  Lonely. So lonely. Learning that there’s something wrong with your baby and not knowing anybody who has heard similar news introduces a level of loneliness and bewilderment that trumps even the first day of high-school and entering the lunchroom by yourself. To combat that, I […]

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Hi friends!  If you haven’t been following the Our Land series, you’re missing out (in my humble opinion).  It came about because so many of you responded with love and enthusiasm to The Land of Empathy and Wonder.  I very much appreciate your support for each amazing contribution in this new series.  Although they make the […]

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It’s Tuesday and that means that I’m linking up with my pal Jen at My Skewed View (formerly Break the Parenting Mold) for Twisted Mixed Tape Tuesday.  Her subject this week has to do with relationships – specifically getting dumped and wanting to tell the dumper that he’d be so much better off had he’d […]

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