From 2007 - Dana Buchman, author of "A Special Education: One Family's Journey Through the Maze of Learning Disabilities."

From 2006- one of my favorite author interviews- David Standish, author of "Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface."

We introduce you to the new Poets Laureate of Kenosha and Racine ....... Nico Moore, poet laureate for Kenosha, and Mary Skillings and Thomas Carr, co-poets laureate for Racine. They will be meeting the public in an event coming up on February 22nd at Vintage & Modern Books in downtown Racine at 6:30 pm.

Dr. Art Cyr - a monthly visitor to the Morning Show for more than twenty years- pays his first visit to the program in 2025. We discuss the closing days of the Biden administration and his decision to pardon members of his family .... the opening days of President Trump's second term, with an array of executive orders .... the legacy of former president Jimmy Carter, which Professor Cyr believes is not properly acknowledged .... and the political landscape of southern California that has played some role in the response to the disastrous wildfires there.

From 2003 - renowned science-fiction author Ben Bova talks about his novel "Saturn," which was part of his Grant Tour series, which depicted the human colonization of the solar system in the late 21st century.

From 2008- Jonathan Kozol, author of "Letters to a Young Teacher."

Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa, author of "How to Chase Change: Thirty Days to Master your Mindset."

Our guest is Dr. Dana Oswald, Professor of English, and Chair of the Department of Literatures and Languages at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. She is about to teach a free community course on Homer's "The Iliad." We talk about this iconic work - who may have written it and why - and what sort of lessons it teaches us all these years later.

In honor of Martin Luther King Day: From 2014 or 2015 ..... Todd Purdum discusses his book "An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964."

From 2009- Nancy Garfinkel, co-author of "The Recipe Club: A Tale of Food and Friendship."