Becoming

I was nervous about heading off to college but found many close friends there, including Suzanne Alele, who taug ...

For a while, Barack and I lived in the second-floor apartment on Euclid Avenue where I’d been raised. We wer ...

Our wedding on October 3, 1992, was one of the happiest days of my life. Standing in for my father, who had p ...

I knew early on in our relationship that Barack would be a great father. He’s always loved and devo ...

Sasha was born about three years after Malia, completing our family with her chubby cheeks and indomitable ...

Malia and Sasha’s bond has always been tight. And their cuteness still melts my heart. ...

I spent three years as executive director for the Chicago chapter of Public Allies, an organization devoted to ...

I later transitioned to working at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where I strove to improve community ...

As a full-time working mom with a spouse who was often away from home, I became well acquainted with ...

I first met Valerie Jarrett (left) in 1991, when she was deputy chief of staff at the Chicago mayor’s office. ...

From time to time our kids came out to visit Barack on the campaign trail. Here’s Malia, watching t ...

Barack announced his candidacy for president in Springfield, Illinois, on a freezing-cold day in February 2 ...

Here we are on the campaign trail, accompanied as always by a dozen or more members of the press. ...

I liked campaigning, energized by the connections I made with voters across America. And yet the pace ...

In the months leading up to the general election, I was given access to a campaign plane, which boosted my ov ...

Joe Biden was a great running mate for Barack for many reasons, including that our two families instantly ...

After a difficult spring and summer on the campaign trail, I spoke at the 2008 Democratic National Conve ...

On November 4, 2008—election night—my mom, Marian Robinson, sat next to Barack, the two of them quietly ...

Malia was ten years old and Sasha just seven in January 2009 when their dad was sworn in as president. S ...

Officially POTUS and FLOTUS, Barack and I hit ten inaugural balls that night, dancing onstage at each one. ...