This is when I really love my job:

When I get to sit down with a smart, interesting, hilarious, good human; then do my best to try to capture their essence — which, according to Mike Rowe, former host of Dirty Jobs and author of the new book The Way I Heard It, it sounds like I may have done this time.

You can read my cover story for this weekend’s PARADE Magazine on the inimitable Mike Rowe here: Mike Rowe Knows What’s Right With America and He’s Telling Things The Way I Heard It in His New Memoir.

And Mike’s Facebook post about the story here: “I sat down a month or so ago in a bar I don’t recall…”

—Amy