WDUN Morning Show

Christine Miles is an expert when it comes to the skill of listening. That's a skill that could save lives of those battling mental health issues. She outlines ways we can all be better listeners and in turn build better relationships in her book "What Is It Costing You Not To Listen?"

Gas prices are up and the pain at the pump is causing many to wonder if there is anything that can be done. Energy expert Scott Angelle says there are definite steps that can be taken to make us less dependent on foreign oil while bringing the prices to a more affordable level.

It was June 13, 1942 when a group of Nazi saboteurs landed in Amagansett, New York. That's the fact that serves as the backdrop for Eve Karlin's "Track 61." Karlin visited Maine Street to talk about this little-known event in WWII history.

William Martin's research for his novel "December '41" helped him create a backdrop so real that his fiction becomes plausible. Martin visited Maine Street to talk about what inspired him to set a story in the weeks following the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

At the end of the Cold War, three Americans were caught for spying for the KGB. It is widely believed there was another. Robert Baer chronicles this on-going hunt in his book "The Fourth Man." In his visit on Maine Street, Baer said the FBI is closing in on the culprit.

After reading hundreds of stories in her role as Chicken Soup for the Soul's editor-in-chief, Amy Newmark shared some great advice from their latest book "Chicken Soup for the Soul: Your 20 Keys to Happiness."

Frank Norton Jr. dropped by Maine Street to talk one of our favorite subjects: Lake Lanier. Frank shared some of the hidden gems on Lanier that make this area so amazing and talked the current state of real estate costs on Lanier.

Matthew Diffee makes his living as a cartoonist. But not all of his comics meet the standards of "New Yorker" magazine. So he's collected the best of the rejections from his work and 50 of his cartooning buddies in "The Best of the Rejection Collection: 297 Cartoons That Were Too Dar, Too Weird, Or Too Dirty for The New Yorker." Diffee took time to visit with us on Maine Street to share what it's like to draw cartoons for a living.

What is like to pack up and move from Hollywood to a rustic cottage in the Catskill Mountains? We got a first-hand look from Melissa Gilbert who did just that. The "Little House on the Prairie" star talks about DIY home renovations and raising chickens in her book "Back to the Prairie".

Former Marine officer Phil Klay shares his experience of finding himself part of a community of veterans trying to grapple with the meaning of their time at war for themselves and their country. Klay talks about the little-known conflicts continuing in other countries involving our military.