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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.

When I was younger, I engaged my coworkers.  I cared about what they said, I went to happy hour with them, and genuinely gave a shit and wanted to be friends both inside and outside of the workplace. Not so much anymore. Which meant that I missed a chance to bring Our Land closer to […]

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It’s celebration time!  I have no idea whether Tucker deciding that he hates me shampooing and rinsing his hair in the tub is a side effect of autism or developmental delays or is it simply a Tucker-quirk.  But it’s been sort of sucky lately and makes me feel like an asshole because I end up […]

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Scents and music have a way of taking us back like nothing else.  Passing a stranger who leaves behind a trail of RL Polo takes me back to the 80’s and the boy I thought I could love.  The one I thought I did love who never even saw me. Phil Collin’s In the Air […]

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While nothing is written on the calendar, I have some plans for this summer.  Here they are, in no particular order. Survive the cicada apocalypse.  For a girl who is irrationally terrified of all bugs, including the harmless ones that don’t want to eat me, the fact that any day now we’ll be overrun by gigantic, loud, noisy, […]

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Friends, Today, I’m doing a happy dance. A happy happy WHEE! I think I’m really cool and awesome “let’s get jiggy” shake your booty happy dance.  Yeah, I know.  I’m not much of a dancer.  I look really stupid unless you’ve had more alcohol than is recommended, in which case I look pretty hot.  And […]

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