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Today I was honored to speak directly with Secretary of State John Kerry on Google+ Hangouts with the State Department to discuss critical foreign policy issues facing our country. As moderator Andrea Mitchell of NBC and MSNBC noted in her introduction, Secretary Kerry recently gave a speech at the University of Virginia in which he [...]
3 Things for Mom posted a sweet Mother’s Day video card including photos of site contributors and their moms (the second is of me and my mom). And if you’d like, here’s my 3 Things for Mom post. Read it to get a Truth, a Tip and a Find!
Here’s a question with an answer that surprised me: What’s the number one reason people support charities or causes? According to Robert Reich who runs the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, the #1 reason people contribute to or get involved in charities and causes is because someone they know asked them to. We’ve [...]
The Motherhood knows that moms are the rock – that healthy moms mean healthy families, healthy communities, healthy nations. Thankfully, there is good news to share. Since 2008, in only five years, the number of women dying in pregnancy or childbirth has dropped by 20% globally. That’s HUGE. As we all know, though, there [...]
I’m at the Women at the World Summit at Lincoln Center in New York today, and Hillary Clinton just wowed the packed concert hall with her keynote remarks. From the moment she took the stage to a huge Standing O to her final hug from Tina Brown, the conference founder, she rocked the room. Tina [...]
I always love getting emails from Christine Koh because she’s always up to the most interesting things. Just the other day she asked if I would join a blog relay for the American Cancer Society’s More Birthdays talking about a “Healthier Holiday Table”, a project she’s working on with our good friend Morra Aarons-Mele, and [...]
On Thursday, I had the honor of doing a satellite media tour for Merck for Mothers to talk with 23 TV and radio stations across the country about Merck’s huge global campaign to save the lives of moms during pregnancy and childbirth. How big a campaign, you ask? Big big. Over ten years, [...]
Giving Tuesday is here!!!! We love Giving Tuesday – the national movement to celebrate giving on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving (and beyond). As moms, we particularly love that Giving Tuesday encompasses all forms of giving, in whatever form works for you and your family, whether that means donating to charities, talking to your kids [...]
Last week it was 80 degrees every day. In November. That is really weird. In June, it rained almost every day. In Texas. That is really weird. Not this past Christmas, but the one before, it snowed 2 feet in Dallas. REALLY WEIRD. – Mom in Texas We had Hurricane Irene and Super Storm [...]
Melissa Joan Hart, celebrity mom and star of ABC Family’s television show “Melissa and Joey,” has partnered with Merck for Mothers in support of their “Once Upon a Birth” campaign. I recently had the opportunity to interview Melissa Joan Hart and we talked about her passion for saving the lives of mothers [...]
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