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.

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

I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.

People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions.

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.

A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways.

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.