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What’s Worse — When the Media Mock Political Women or Ignore Them?

Friday, August 13, 2010

The media love to mock women in the political world by using sexist terms that demean us and make us out to be something not worthy of serious consideration. We saw that time and time again…

Sarah Palin’s “Mama Grizzlies” Are Really Polar Bears

Monday, July 19, 2010

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Last summer on our family vacation to Yellowstone National Park, we actually got to see a grizzly bear. Fortunately for safety’s sake, it was from a very far distance while we were on a rafting trip, but I was surprised…

Sarah Palin & the “Mama Grizzlies” Don’t Have a Corner on the Political Motherhood Revolution

Saturday, July 10, 2010

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For some reason, Sarah Palin and her acolytes, or as she likes to call them, the “mama grizzlies,” want us to believe that politically conservative mothers speak for all mothers and that they have a corner on common sense or…

Mothers of Intention — Variety Pack!

Thursday, June 3, 2010

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Here’s a little light reading from the Mothers of Intention file to get you through the week! Darryle Pollack weighs in eloquently on a topic I’ve been thinking about, but for which I haven’t been able to put my…

Am I Angrier at Martha Coakley or the Democratic Party?

Sunday, January 17, 2010

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I feel that I should write something thoughtful and analytical about the state of race in Massachusetts to fill the Senate seat of the late Ted Kennedy. But I’m too angry. Massachusetts Democrats blew a 30 percent lead to…

#Moms4Haiti on Twitter

Thursday, January 14, 2010

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Everyone has been tweeting about the devastation in Haiti following the earthquake earlier this week. Actually, the devastation isn’t done since aftershocks are still occurring. Lots of people are trying to help, but the roads are in horrible shape and…

Harold Ford vs. Kirsten Gillibrand — Who’s the Real Bully?

Monday, January 11, 2010

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I’ve had some interesting comments in E-mail discussions, Facebook posts, Twitter and other places about my last post on the attempts being made by former Congressman Harold Ford and his cadre of wealthy backers to push Kirsten Gillibrand…

Emerging Political Girls

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

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You may have noticed that I’m not writing her quite as much as I usually do. I’m trying to keep my nose to the grindstone on my Mothers of Intention book project and make some headway before the holidays (

Mothers of Intention — I’m Just Not That Into Politics, by No Time for Flashcards

Monday, November 9, 2009

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I met some fabulous women at the Type-A Mom conference in September. Some were women I had admired in the blogosphere and met for the first time in real life, and others had blogs I hadn’t yet discovered,…

Maria Shriver Says It’s a Woman’s Nation. Do You?

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

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California First Lady Maria Shriver says we’re now living in a Woman’s Nation — women make up half the work force, the majority of mothers are the main breadwinners or co-breadwinners of their families and women are in charge…

Speak Out for Laura Ling & Euna Lee

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

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It shouldn’t come as any surprise that the North Korean government would use non-military Americans as political bargaining chips. “Convicting” Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee of illegally crossing into North Korea and sentencing them to 12 years…

Mothers of Intention — More Magazine Editor-in-Chief Lesley Jane Seymour on Global Poverty

Monday, June 1, 2009

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Mother’s of Intention! Instead of having a guest post, my guest Mother of Intention is someone I interviewed recently about the fight against global poverty. So many of us are trying to find ways…