I wasn’t sure how I was going to convince my family to come to the No on 8 rally in San Jose today. My husband couldn’t see the point. “I know it sucks, honey, but it passed. No point in…

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Continue reading → Families at the No on 8 Rally

This evening, my children and close friends returned to the Palo Alto corner of El Camino Real and Embarcadero. Directly across the street from the entrance to Stanford University and Palo Alto High School, we joined hundreds of friends, old…

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Continue reading → Palo Alto Prop 8 Vigil

Chicago Moms Blog contributor, Alma, was at Chicago’s Grant Park on Tuesday evening, listening to President Elect, Barack Obama give his acceptance speech. Here is her passionate post about this once in a life time experience on such a memorable…

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Continue reading → Grant Park 2008: I was there!

As many of my friends know, I don’t consider myself a political activist in any sense of the word. I do vote in every election I can but I’m just not one to spout my political leanings, hoping to convince…

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Continue reading → Relief and Hope - With A Twinge of Sadness

We woke up this morning full of hope. Obama’s victory is the start of a new direction for our country. We want to celebrate. Yet, on a more sobering note, Prop 8 passed. We are saddened, shocked and dismayed that…

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Continue reading → Prop 8 - a very sad morning…..

I am sitting with my three boys and husband explaining why this moment, that Barack Obama is now President Elect, is historic (the first time a white-majority country has ever elected a nonwhite head of state). We talked about the…

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Continue reading → My 6 Year Old Said: I Want The Guy With The Dark Skin To Win

What are we to do this historic election day? With many hours before the polls are set to close, we had to find a way to spend our time in a productive manner. Put a group of four women in…

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Continue reading → Video from Palo Alto Obama Headquarters Office

As I walked in to drop off my absentee ballot, I was told: “You need to take the Obama pin off your purse while you are here.” Seriously, I forgot that THIS pin was on my purse. Earlier today, I…

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Continue reading → Palo Alto Voting and Polling and Teens… oh my!

This past week I have been feeling ill - nauseous, tired, run down. As moms you know, I sound pregnant don’t I? I am not, but I sure was worried. My family is covered under COBRA health insurance, which means…

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Continue reading → Vote YES on Santa Clara County Measure A

On the eve of this historic election, I was reminded in a very personal way how far we have come as a country and as a society. I was copying my Michigan birth certificate (more on why below) when I…

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Continue reading → My pre- post-racial birth certificate

“Mommy, how come all the leaders are men? How come no women?” Several years ago, my then six-year old daughter, asks me this question. I proudly tell her our state is fortunate to have not one, but two women senators,…

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Continue reading → My Daughter is Playing the Gender Card

This morning, I drove down the streets of my Palo Alto neighborhood and started to take pictures with my Sony DSLR. I have walked past these homes hundreds of times and smiled at my neighbors. “My Peeps”, as some of…

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Continue reading → What Are The Political Lawn Sign’s In YOUR Neighborhood?

It’s hard to find little boys exhibiting more typical little-boy behavior than my twin preschoolers. Consider: * At the age of 7 months, they began fighting over the only toy in the house with wheels on it: their big sister’s…

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Continue reading → Are my sons gay? I hope not

At the beginning of the Iraq war, people were called “Un-American” for not supporting the war and our troops. At the height of the troop surge, there was also a surge of patriotism. Flags proudly flew, and in some cities,…

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Continue reading → Where has freedom of speech gone?

When I moved to San Francisco after college, I had as many gay friends as straight ones. We went dancing together, cooked each other dinner, teased each other mercilessly about our boy and girlfriends and sat up late into the…

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Continue reading → In which the political becomes deeply personal

My experience with computers go back to the days of being one of the first people to program on the Apple Lisa when our school district finally scrounged enough bake sale coins to get one for our jr. high school….

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Continue reading → Not that I’m paranoid or anything but ….

This presidential election has been fun. I’ve never followed one more closely, in fact, the Democratic primary process was a downright adrenaline rush. But I must say I am ready for it all to be over. The last few weeks…

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Continue reading → I don’t ‘heart’ Sarah Palin

I was born a Democrat. Party affiliation was served along with the canned vegetables I was forced to eat for dinner. My first crush was on John Kennedy. I went to Washington to work for George McGovern against Nixon, and…

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Continue reading → Sleeping with the Enemy

I found out yesterday I would be talking today with Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Senator Joe Biden, who may in two weeks be the wife of the Vice President-Elect. Knowing I would have time for perhaps one question only,…

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Continue reading → Talking Education with Jill Biden

I was stunned, surprised, mildly amused, and thinking either way this turns out, America will have someone my age leading her. That’s where the emotional impact of Sarah Palin ended for me. Although I share some of her (rather confused…

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Continue reading → The Association Argument

Dear J, The next month will be a difficult one for us, and although you won’t remember it in the coming years, I wanted to write you a letter to explain why I’m not going to be there as much…

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Continue reading → A Letter to My Two Year-Old Daughter

Last Saturday night, I attended a family function with my very conservative, very Republican extended family. I often make jokes about how I love them despite this fatal character flaw. And they often make a similar joke about me. The…

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Continue reading → Standing up for Working Mothers… Including Sarah Palin

I’m not old enough to remember John F. Kennedy, but I do remember the hush that fell over my family when they spoke about him so many years later: the reverence, the respect, and the sense of real promise too…

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Continue reading → Obama and McCain: a little post-game analysis

Past weekend, I had an occasion or two to laugh, which is always a good thing. One occasion was on account of our three kids being so excited that they (all of them) had gotten me birthday cards and made…

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Continue reading → I laughed … and then ….

….cross posted from our sister site, DC Metro Moms Blog. Yesterday, I joined MomsRising’s co-founder and Executive Director Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner and 13 other moms to hand deliver a letter to Governor Sarah Palin’s state office in The DC. The letter…

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Continue reading → Governor Palin? Knock, Knock. Who’s There? MomsRising.

It’s no secret that for about a year, I—along with about 22 other progressive moms—have been trying in our own little corner of the internet to influence the outcome of…

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Continue reading → Talking about the election with young kids [three simple tips]

As I watched the Saturday Night Live skit last night where Tina Fey and Amy Poehler were playing Sarah Palin and Hilary Clinton, it took me back to when the Silicon Valley Moms Bloggers were called MILF’s by a blog…

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Continue reading → Comedian Mom Tina Fey as Hockey Mom Sarah Palin: Notes From The Skit

What would I do if I was a political adviser to Cheney the current political regime who want to keep power because it’s been so good to me and my friends? That was the question I was pondering as I…

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Continue reading → What would I do if I were …

The conventions are over, the VPs announced, the nominations accepted and the race to the finish is now fully on. The gloves are coming off and our blogs are exploding with political posts. The truly historic nature of this election…

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Continue reading → This Week’s Hot Posts - Diving Into Politics

The media is abuzz about all the different Sarah Palin controversies. Each day brings yet another whack-a-doodle layer to the story of a woman who seemingly came out of nowhere as a statement, but whose people have had to make…

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Continue reading → The Palin Problem

While there are so many heated debates going on regarding John McCain’s VP choice, Sarah Palin, one question I have is: Do politicians really think that moms vote for candidates that are moms - just because they are moms? Forget…

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Continue reading → McCain, Don’t Play The Mom Card

I had the opportunity this past week to attend the Democratic National Convention as a contributor with the MOMocrats. It was exciting, overwhelming, exhausting and inspiring all at the same time. I had access to the “Big Tent”, where bloggers…

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Continue reading → The Obama Kool Aid

On Sunday, July 19, the MOMocrats had a brunch with some of the members of the Silicon Valley Moms Group after the BlogHer Conference in San Francisco. We turned our social session into a working session, putting our collective knowledge…

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Continue reading → Building a National Platform, One Mom at a Time

Elizabeth Edwards took the stage at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York today virtually - via Skype. As her flight was cancelled at the last minute, she was unable to make her in-person slot for us or “Good Morning…

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Continue reading → Virtual Hugs to Elizabeth Edwards Who Still Rocks Our World

Yesterday morning I opened the paper to read this disturbing headline: Gay marriage ban qualifies for Calif. ballot What? What? I am so confused. Recently California had some momentous news. The Supreme Court struck down a ban on same-sex marriage….

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Continue reading → “Family Values” Rear their Ugly Head Again

In true mom fashion, I witnessed history last night - Obama’s winning enough delegates to be the Democrat’s nomination - at Round Table Pizza! Yes, with 20 screaming boys waiting to receive their end of the year soccer trophies, me…

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Continue reading → Obama Pizza Party

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