My Meeting With Michelle
The White House wanted to help the little people. That includes reporters like me in bureaus working for local news stations. So they offered to let us interview the First Lady on her "Lets Move" one year anniversary. How fitting that I was actually running on the treadmill when the press person called, "Would you be interested in interviewing the First Lady?" Sure. So the interview was confirmed. I told Abegail I was going to get to interview Michelle Obama. She said, "You're going to tell her about us aren't you?" "I may," I said as we reflected on the time I went through the McDonald's drive through and told the man at the window about the loud kids in the back since he happened to be from Ghana. My coworker, who is a man, asked me, "what are you going to wear?" as he looked down at my boots that had been through 4 of the 8 springs I spent in Minnesota - full of mud and left over salt. OK, note to self, wear real ...