Sunday Morning Magazine

Maya van Rossum is a veteran environmentalist, and the leader of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network. Maya's new book:-- The Green Amendment: Securing Our Right to a Healthy Environment is critical reading for anyone interested in protecting the environment in their own area/state. Maya's goal is to awaken and empower us to take action for our environment rights by pioneering the 'Green Amendment Mov...

Dr. Victor Romano is an orthopedic surgeon in Oak Park, IL, and the author of "Finding The Source: Maximizing Your Results – With and Without Orthopedic Surgery". He's board-certified in orthopedics and sports medicine with over 25 years of experience in the field. He loves his work, loves to help people, and aim to do so in the least invasive ways. Because pain is too often present in our lives...

Steve Kipp is here to tell a critical story of life, of surviving a stroke, a young, healthy, active guy, yet a stroke occurred. Steve's story is important insight and information for each of us as stroke and heart disease are the leading causes of death. Someone in the US has a stroke about once every 40 seconds. To be more informed, to support the work of the Heart Association to advance researc...

Debbie Reber is a NY Times best selling author and with her new book : "Differently Wired--Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World" brings key information for parents of kids who are 'differently wired' as well as teachers, and anyone working with these kids. As school begins, this really is an important foundation to help everyone to be/feel successful Debbie's son had been diagnosed...

Carrie McBride with the Alzheimers Association gives us statistics about Alzheimers and dementia. Alzheimers is the 3rd leading cause of death in our state. The Walk to End Alzheimers is a major fund raiser, and the funds are used for research, for community support and education. People need to know they are not alone. There are numerous walks in Western Washington: Bremerton--Sept 8, Tacoma--Sep...

Thomas Moore is a NY Times best-selling author, a university professor and a psychotherapist. Thomas is really a thinker--who shares his internal thoughts and journeys to help us consider our own life and purpose. In his new book: Ageless Soul--The Lifelong Journey Toward Meaning and Joy, Thomas invites us to reflect on the meaning of age and aging. Consider that aging happens from the moment we a...

Dr. Dirk van Leenen was a child in Holland when WWII was being fought, old enough to understand the experience. His father was a leader of the Resistance, were housed and moved through their home, countless lives saved. Near the end of the war he and his parents were transported to a concentration camp and only endured one day there. He has been writing about the war time experiences, and speaking...

Nearly 1 in 3 adults has high cholesterol. That should certainly grab our attention. To get a clearer understanding we have cardiologist, Dr. Rosemary Peterson who works with this on a daily basis, to explain why high cholesterol is often called 'the silent heart attack'. And we also meet a man, Joe Farrington, who less than 2 years ago experienced 'the silent heart attack'. Doctors informed him t...

David Williams is the Executive Director of the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum in Kent, a place where the classic hydros are restored. And they are used in performance races during the year, including at Seafair. David is also a writer, as part of the Museum mission is to preserve the history of the people who contributed to building the sport. The new book is: A Race to Freedom--The Mira Slovak S...

July 28th, marks the 150th anniversary of the adoption of the 14th Amendment of our Constitution, which defined American citizenship. Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor at Johns Hopkins University. She was formerly a founding director of the Michigan Law School Program in Race, Law & History. She is an author, and her new book, directly related to the 14th Am...

Dr. Julie Lamb is an endocrinologist and infertility specialist at Pacific NW Fertility in Seattle. Dr. Lamb gives us important information about our body and the biology of pregnancy. It's possible to take the matter of getting pregnant as something that will be easy. Some of today's trends, women posting pregnancy for various reasons, including their career, finances, being with the right partne...

Christal Glangchai PhD is a scientist, entrepreneur and mentor whose big passion is to inspire and help girls in all of these areas. In a family of girls, her father engaged them in all kinds of activities around home, even repairing the car. She is dedicated to helping girls really fulfill their potential. Much of her work can be found in her new book: VentureGirls: Raising Girls to Be Tomorrow's...

Dr. Scott Litin, an internist at the Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, takes the time to touch on a few of the topics in the updated volume of the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book. It's a terrific resource that covers some of the basic questions we might have about flu and fever. It helps to get us organized for a doctor visit. Dr. Litin suggests having questions written down to make the best use of the limit...

Dr. Michael Schreeinga is an award-winning research psychiatrist, and author of "They'll Never Be the Same, A Parent's Guide to PTSD in Youth". Foremost is the fact that PTSD has been overlooked in youth. We may finally be acknowledging it with all the school shootings. But Dr. Schreeinga points out the other areas from which it results: Natural disasters, witnessing domestic violence, motor vehic...

Frank Shaw is a practicing trial attorney, a husband, dad of 7 sons, and a recovering alcoholic. Frank writes of his life and experiences in "Signals of Transcendence" in the hope that some part of the story will help, encourage, support others going through something similar. One other big part of Frank's story is the death of his son Fletcher, just 20. Fletcher was in recovery from drug abuse. T...

The Arc of King County in an 82 year long non-profit organization that serves all people with intellectual and developmental disabilities across the lifespan: from prenatal diagnosis through end of life care. The programs are free to families and help the individual to live to the best of their ability, to learn self advocacy; and for parents and care givers there is good peer-to-peer support that...

Pati Poblete is a longtime Bay Area journalist and has used her writing talent to relate a devastating story--the murder of her 23 year old son, Robby, 4 years ago, and her journey of healing. A Better Place--A Memoir of Peace in the Face of Tragedy is a raw and honest recounting of the tragedy and is balanced with the portrayal of Robby's deep engagement in, and love of life! Pati knows that we e...

May is stroke awareness month. Dr. Dennis Wang is a stroke specialist with CHI Franciscan Health- and provides us with important guidelines on awareness and practicing prevention--blood pressure being key in this area. We also meet Bill Monroe, a stroke survivor who underscores Dr. Wang's insights and directions. Both highlight "FAST" as an indicator of a stroke happening: F--change in the face/dr...

David Richart, Executive Director of Susan G Komen Puget Sound extends the invite to join and support the annual--Big 25 this year!--Race for the Cure. Takes place Sunday morning, June 3, at the Seattle Center. Fundraising and financial support are critically important--to support continued research, as well as support women and families with financial challenges that often supersede getting treat...

Lisa Rosenblum is the new Executive Director of KCLS--King County Library System, coming across the country from her former position at the Brooklyn Public Library. Lisa is the first female director in more than 5 decades, so great new energy for the Northwest. KCLS is the #1 library system nationwide in digital checkouts and Lisa is here to continue this trend but acknowledges that 'paper' is sti...

Luke Minor, Senior Associate Director of Washington State's GET Program--Guaranteed Education Tuition, shares much information about this important action to take on behalf of our kids. Ideally, we begin young, at their birth, even before--baby showers are a great event where the host can suggest contributions to a child's future education. GET, a 529 prepaid college tuition plan is viewed as tops...

Dr. Cheryl Al-Mateen is Medical Director of the Virginia Treatment Center for Children, and Professor of Psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Psychiatry. She is passionate about helping kids and youth because it's known that half of mental illnesses start before age 14. This being the case...we need to get a better understanding and be proactive on behalf of these kids, the...

Christian Davenport is a staff writer at the Washington Post where he covers the space and defense industries for the financial desk. So he's had the opportunity to be up close with the recent history of space activities. Christian is also an author whose newest book is: The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos. Christian will be in Seattle at the Museum of Fli...

Bruce M. Beehler is an ornithologist, naturalist, conservationist, author, and lecturer. He is a research associate in the division of birds at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. And, he has published eleven books about nature. His new one is: North on the Wing: Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring. Besides bringing a focus on our environment, it may inspire some special...

Dr. Ilona Jerabek is the founder of Psychtests, based in Montreal, Quebec. Dr. Jerabek is a specialist in the field of psychometric assessments. They do Testing of classical IQ, personality, self esteem, for individuals and companies. Recent research revealed that EQ, emotional intelligence, self awareness, carries greater weight in a person's life. As Dr. Jerabek states: people with high emotiona...