It's Mother's Day week and we have a great show for you today.  We start out with the Oscar winning producer of an Inconvenient Truth talking about her new film, Fed Up, which takes on our unhealthy relationship with food in America. Then we hear from a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author about the impact her mom had on her love of words.  Next up we explore how a love of reading can carry kids through life. Last, but far from least, we explore how democracy grows and glows!

 

*Special guests include: Laurie David, producer of Fed Up; Alisa Valdes, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than a dozen commercial women’s fiction, young adult novels, and memoirs; Ayelet Waldman,  author of Love and Treasure, Red Hook Road and The New York Times bestseller Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace;  Eric Liu, author, educator, civic entrepreneur, and founder and CEO of Citizen University and the Civic Collaboratory.