Sunday Morning Magazine with Rodney Lear

Frederick Glasser, Author, Is It Christmas Yet? Frederick Glasser is the author of Monsters Come Out Tonight! He has worked in editorial for Viking Penguin children's books, and in publicity, advertising, and marketing for the Random House juvenile division. He is currently sales director at Fox Chapel Publishing. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at htt...

Herman Parish, Author, Amelia Bedelia Wraps It Up. Herman Parish was in the fourth grade when his aunt, Peggy Parish, wrote the first book about Amelia Bedelia. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

• Tara Knudson, Author, Christmas Cookie Day. Tara Knudson is a former teacher who has been writing poetry and stories since she was a young girl growing up in Chicago. Her published work can be found in children's magazines, greeting cards, calendars, and a poetry anthology for teens. Christmas Cookie Day, Easter Egg Day, and Valentine’s Day Treats are all part of Tara’s collected works celebrati...

• Jim Benton, Author, Comet the Unstoppable Reindeer. Jim Benton is the New York Times bestselling writer of the Dear Dumb Diary series and a cartoonist whose unique brand of humor has been seen on toys, television, T-shirts, greeting cards, and even underwear. Franny K. Stein is the first character he’s created especially for young children. A husband and father of two, he lives in Michigan, wher...

Suzanne Nelson, Author, Over in a Stable. Suzanne has written several children's books, including Cake Pop Crush, You're Bacon Me Crazy!, Macarons at Midnight, Dead in the Water, The Sound of Munich, and Heart and Salsa. She lives with her family in Ridgefield, Connecticut, where she can also be found experimenting with all kinds of cooking See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Calif...

• Loren Long, Illustrator, The Night Before Christmas. Loren Long is the author and illustrator of the New York Times bestselling picture books Otis, Otis and the Tornado, Otis and the Puppy, An Otis Christmas and Otis and the Scarecrow. He is the #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator of President Barack Obama’s picture book Of Thee I Sing, the re-illustrated edition of The Little Engine That...

Rick Pender is a Cincinnati arts journalist, author, radio interviewer, tour guide and urban resident. He has covered and promoted Cincinnati events and arts for four decades. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Regina Belle’s new single, “Freedom” featuring Iyanla Vanzant, reflects the political and moral climate in this country and abroad. Produced and written by Belle with Chris Walker, her longtime music partner and collaborator, the aptly titled “Freedom” is released on her record label, Tashi III Entertainment. Recorded with a live band, a full choir, and a live spoken-word segments by lifestyle gur...

Richard Bell served on the DNC National Lawyers Council, the Minority Voting Rights Committee, was an electoral poll monitor for the Obama campaign in Philadelphia in 2012, and an electoral poll monitor for the Clinton campaign in Broward County, Florida during the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. He has also argued and won an appeal of a court order protecting voters' rights in New Jersey on Elec...

The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan political organization encouraging informed and active participation in government. It influences public policy through education and advocacy. We never support or oppose any political party or candidate. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Sherry Poland, Director, Board of Elections, Hamilton County Ohio See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Currently, Lyra Logan is Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Florida Education Fund (FEF), a nonprofit that creates and implements educational programs for underrepresented groups. She also directs their pre-college programs, which include after-school and summer coding camps for elementary, middle, and high school students in Florida. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privac...

Scott O’Reilly says after a career of prosecuting cases involving child abuse he felt there had to be a better way to provide support, services and resources for abused children. To address this on-going issue, he founded the Little Fork Family Advocacy Center. Mr. O’Reilly explained on-air that the Center will house specialist who can address problems such as domestic violence, physical and sexua...

Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church may be known in popular culture for his sermon at the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Megan Markle, his life work has been to fight for human and equal rights, the respect and recognition immigrants at the border and Indigenous people, and the LGBTQ+ community. Now, his shares stories from his own life with messages of how we can all live the...

7TH Annual Laughter is the Best Medicine, September 25th at Newport Syndicate. St. Jude Laughter is the Best Medicine, presented by Window World Cincinnati, to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since it opened more than 50 years ago. See Privacy Policy at https://art19...

Jack Brendamour, Dragonfly Foundation Board Member & Junk King CEO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Tracy Tutor is a top real estate agent. She is the first and only female cast member on Bravo's Million Dollar Listing LA. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Katie Blackburn (Executive Vice President, Cincinnati Bengals) Sheri Harper (Chief People Officer, Frisch’s Amy B. Spiller (President, Duke Energy Ohio & Kentucky) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Lady J, Spoken Word Artists, Poet and Author of The Trouble with Socks. The Trouble With Socks is a book of poetry, in which relationships are metaphorically related to socks that are mysteriously separated between the wash and the dry cycles. Delving into how life experiences dictated her relationship choices, The Trouble With Socks begins with the innocence and nuance of love and slowly spirals...

Back-to-school is more confusing than ever, but lunch doesn’t need to be difficult. As a registered dietitian, Grace Shea is a mom who specializes in working with children. She has nearly ten-years’ experience in coaching parents on quick, easy, nutritious meals that your child will love and at the appropriate ages, can even make for themselves. If you are juggling home-schooling and a job, need t...

About the book--Sixteen-year-old Camino Rios lives for the summer—especially the first week of June—when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land—like clockwork, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people… Roughly 1,500 miles away, in New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal’s office, which is no b...

About the book--Marin has always been good at navigating these unspoken guidelines. A star student and editor of the school paper, she dreams of getting into Brown University. Marin’s future seems bright—and her young, charismatic English teacher, Mr. Beckett, is always quick to admire her writing and talk books with her. But when “Bex” takes things too far and comes on to Marin, she’s shocked and...

About the book--In the small town of Alcolu, South Carolina, in 1944, 12-year-old Ella spends her days fishing and running around with her best friend Henry and cousin Myrna. But life is not always so sunny for Ella, who gets bullied for her light skin tone and whose mother is away pursuing a jazz singer dream in Boston. So Ella is ecstatic when her mother invites her to visit for Christmas. Littl...

About the book--The title says it all: this fun debut is a comedic take on potty training with a clever message at the end. Two children bring home a pet porcupine, but they can only keep her if she's house-trained! After a whirlwind of increasingly zany approaches, the kids learn that sometimes the best way to solve a problem is to ask nicely. While the "How To" concept is not new in the picture...

David Matthews, Author, Ace of Spades. Growing up as a bi-racial child, who could pass as either African American or white, Matthews says he knows first-hand how Americans can be racist. Matthews admits he slipped in and out of the black and white worlds, never really knowing who or what he was. Having a true identity crisis, Matthews says he swung from virulent white racist to pontificating black...