Nice to hear (on Labor Day, of course) from the intrepid work-life adventurer Mike Rowe, once of Baltimore and creator and host of the excellent Dirty Jobs show on Discovery. He posted my Sunday column under "What we leave behind" on his well-stocked world-of-work web site.

Even though the mail comes to San Francisco, I still think of Baltimore as home, and find myself missing it more often than not. I wanted to thank you for your most recent column. I meet and work with guys like Bob Miller everyday, and tell their stories as best I can on Dirty Jobs. Last Labor Day, I started a website called www.mikeroweWORKS.com, to try and keep the
importance of hard work and skilled labor as a worthwhile topic of conversation. Check it out if you have a moment.

Thanks, and Happy Labor Day

Mike Rowe