It is always a gamble whenever I enter a book store- I most often buy something when I had no such intention.

The other day I stopped in to buy a ticket for the upcoming Ginny Hawker/Tracy Schwarz/Peter Schwarz concert in Juneau, saw this book and bought it: 'The Bridge' by David Remnick. A comprehensive look at where Barack Obama started and how and why he got where he is today.

I haven't been home much this last week so I've only just started the book but I have already learned some things I didn't know before or had forgotten. For instance, I didn't realize that Obama's father was one of those Africans who were given the opportunity in the Kennedy Administration to come study in America.

Choices. That's what it's all about.