Last night on “The Tonight” show Leno had as his first guest Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State. What a gracious and well spoken woman! Regardless of your politics you just had to respect how she voiced her opinions as well as her honesty when she said she didn’t miss her old job. At all. She likes waking up in the morning, reading the paper and “not having to do anything about anything I read.” Imagine that!

She’s planning on writing two books. Of course every Secretary of State writes a book after they leave office, so she’ll be working on that one. But when that’s finished she is going to write a book about her parents. She grew up in Birmingham AL and was friends with one of the three school girls that died in the 1963 church bombing. She said her parents didn’t make much money, but gave her every opportunity because they believed in education. I sort of teared up when she called them extraordinarily ordinary, because that’s the way I view my own parents. They didn’t make much money either, but they gave us the best they had, and they did the best they could. Wish everyone could have  an extraordinarily ordinary childhood!

I’m looking forward to reading the book about her parents.  Somehow I think it will be a lot like reading a book about my own.