Even though mother's issues are not front page news they touch us all personally, some more than others and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.

We are mortgaging our future.

Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter verified paper trail.

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.

I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.

Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.

We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition.