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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.

It’s Finish the Sentence Friday time and this week’s sentence is “If you could hang out with any celebrity, it would be…” ME!  I want to hang out with famous-me.  Obviously, I’m not famous.  But I’d like to be. Not because I envy the Hollywood lifestyle or am excited about choosing hot young bodyguards to […]

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The girl with the wingspan.  You know, like Michael.  (ah I do love me some Michael) You guys know that I am not a usually a reviewie gal.  But when there’s a book involved, and it’s a memoir, and the kid has special needs…how can I resist?  The good news for you is that not […]

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…I removed all of my clothes, shoes, purses and scarves from my closet.  I then vacuumed, dusted each individual hanger and shelf, donated the pieces that I either haven’t worn in two years or will never again fit into, and then polished my polishable shoes.  Because all keepables were already piled on the bed, I […]

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To the mom at kiss-n-ride drop off today, I understand that you’re in a hurry and that you have a routine for dropping off your kid in the right spot in the long line of cars we both wait in each morning.  I understand that we’re at an elementary school and that you’re proud of […]

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Some of the cool kids like Stephanie at Mommy, For Real, Kate at Can I get another bottle of whine and Kenya at Here’s the Thing participate in this Monday Listicles thing.  If you, like me, are on the dumb side and aren’t sure whether a listicle is simply a list that got tickled, I Googled […]

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