When I was a young girl growing up in Chicago, my girlfriends hung posters of Donny Osmond and David Cassidy on their bedroom walls. I displayed an article and picture of our local news anchor - Bill Kurtis.
He was good looking, confident, and smart. And he was compassionate. When Chicago's longstanding and often controversial Mayor Richard J. Daley died in December 1976 - the year I graduated from college with a degree in journalism - Kurtis was clearly moved.
He was my hero. He affirmed that I'd made the right decision in choosing journalism. You could be a tough journalist and interviewer, and still appreciate your subject. Several years later, after taking a rather circuitous route, I'm finally doing what I want to be doing - interviewing interesting people - mostly local women - and writing about them.
This blog will be mostly about what I'm learning along the way, from these women, and from the other amazing people in my life.
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