Obama has an essay in Real Simple Family about his daughters. It hits newsstands Aug. 18.
MarketWatch: In the third-annual special issue of Real Simple Family, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and United States Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, discusses a photo of his daughters in an essay entitled "Swinging Along the Campaign Trail."
With his story, as told to Real Simple executive editor Rachel Hardage, Obama joins two other writers with young children in "My Favorite Photo," a series of touching essays about the photograph the authors love most.
Obama shares a photo of his two daughters, Malia and Sasha, taken last summer in New Hampshire when they were on a campaign trip with their mother and grandmother, kicking off the state chapter of Women for Obama. The senator himself was campaigning elsewhere, but he explains how the image illustrates how much the girls have grown in the past year as well as how much they love one another. He also discusses how he and Mrs. Obama try to limit the girls' participation on the campaign trail so that they can "be kids" and stay focused on their own lives.
Obama's other writings includes The Audacity of Hope (of course) and Dreams From My Father and these poems published in the New Yorker.
