The Light We Carry

As you probably know, Michelle Obama's new book, The Light We Carry, is coming out on November 15th.  

Before it started, I almost fell asleep, pressed record, but was so engaged I watched the hour-long interview with Robin Roberts on ABC, filmed in the Obama's living room.   

What a charismatic, wise and down-to-earth person she is!  

When asked where her home is, she said, "Where Barrack is.  He's my dude!"  Married thirty years, those two obviously have the secret sauce.

When asked how she gets through these crazy times, she said she's taken up knitting--and later showed a half-knitted sweater and shawl she's made.

She told a story about visiting their grown daughters, Sasha and Melania who live together in California.  They were served "weak cocktails" and handed coasters to protect their new furniture.  "Coasters??? They never were so careful about my furniture in the White House," Michelle said. 

At a dinner party, several girlfriends and her mother talk about a friendship that includes lots of exercise and talking late into the night about the things no one ever prepared them for--like menopause. When her friends visited at Camp David, they say that Michelle made it like boot camp, exercising three times a day. 

And her mama?  She's just glad "not to be living with all them anymore and to have her whole house to herself every night, no man, nobody, just me, doing what I want to do." 

Terrific interview with a touching surprise ending, the kind of interview that will have millions doing what I did, going to Amazon to pre-order the new book.