During World War II, Jewish prisoners in the Nazi concentration camp at Terezin learned Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem and performed it 16 times. This weekend at Northern Illinois University, that story of affirmation and defiance toward their captors will be commemorated through Verdi's music, historic film footage, testimonials from camp survivors, and narration. The program, Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin, will be led by its creator, conductor Murry Sidlin. He's conducted it close to fifty times around the world.

We all get depressed, some of us more than others. I suffer from mild depression, and when an attack comes, I head for the nearest large pharmacy. I don’t buy anything. I just roam the aisles.

I soon realize that I’m not the only one in pain. I see rows and rows of pain killers. I see that I’m not the only one with muscle aches. I see seventeen varieties of braces.

Today is Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. It is a day that lets kids get a glimpse into the professional lives of their parents. Jocelyn Kuntz accompanied her mother to WNIJ. The 14-year-old got more than a glimpse, she got an education. We put her to work interviewing some of the parents who work in the office. She interviewed them in their favorite places. She started with News Director Jenna Dooley.

A school bus rumbled past the house. Then another, and another. It was mid-morning, long after school had started. By the time the caravan ended, there were about 12 buses parked, engines running, along two blocks. I asked one of the bus drivers what was happening. He said it was a drill.

Carolyn Williams has been taking care of her nephew's daughter for months. That's because her nephew is incarcerated.

"And even though the violation seemed to be pretty minor, he didn't have money to bond out," Williams said.

Williams came to the New Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Rockford recently to learn about how bond works in Illinois from Chicago's Community Bond Fund or the CCBF.

They say you should always begin at the beginning,

but I ignored that advice.

I wrote the last line of this poem first.

Contrary ways are my vice.

If you don’t know where you are going,

you are very unlikely to get there.

So I wrote the very last line first,

to make my goal easy and clear.

I’ve wanted to try my hand at this thing,

if time and tide will allow.

The best time to plant a tree is 50 years ago,

but the second best time is now.

Each day at 8:50 I listen intently,