michael rosen's words have captured generations of children and adults. former children's laureate and author of more than 140 books is known for his dedication to social causes. 12 years later, his own life was in their hands as he battled covid-19, and experience that involved weeks in an induced coma. he revisits that time in a new book, "many different kinds of love," and he joins us now to tell us more. thanks for joining us today. you are looking better than this time last year, but i believe you're still suffering the nt of covid. how did your find the time and energy to put together this extremely moving book? >> as your body starts to fail or is coming out of a period of failure, luckily my mind was mostly intact, so a great refuge, if you like. to sit and think and right -- to sit and think and write. julia: the book is made up of fragments of prose. some of the text comes from notes by the health care workers who look after you while you were in an induced coma. sophie, lizzie, daniel, eloise, natosha, daniel, and many others wrote to you recor

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michael? commissioner and acting chair rosen has said for example, it is time for the fcc to develop a consistent and reliable approach in ensuring the resiliency of networks during disaster. >> the response the maria was highly unusual. in the case of katrin skpa sandy both, the fcc number one engaged in significant on the ground activity. i participated in a conference call that was hosted by then fcc chair kevin martin in the immediate aftermath of katrina where all stakeholders were brought together to solve the problem of what can we do in this catastrophe? during the trina, the fcc chair of the relevant bureau was david tutorski. and chairman janikowski were constantly keeping the public informed, bringing together stakeholders to ensure that there was activity. in both of those cases, they convened a task force to conduct an investigation, hundreds of pages of testimony that culminated in commission reports with significant recommendations. and many rule changes that have put in place and benefitted resilient networks to this day. none of this was done in response to hurricane maria. the p

we have kevin loven, nba, rosen in the nba, michael phelps has talked about mental health.? do we in the media pay attention to the story? for whatever reasons, this young lady has got our attention, and i could give you a list of reasons as to why. but what is happening is that we're going to have to adjust to a world that is so different, and we cannot continue to ignore it, be as pro. meaning like we can't continue to say everything is fine, put your head down and do your job. do you see what happened in the last year and a half? it is impossible for some people to continue to return to the office, maybe return back to whatever normal looks like, and she has pointed this out in so many eloquent ways. i hate that she had so much push back because she simply said she wanted a mental health day. you and i work in a business where mental health days are imperative. if we don't have a mental health day, then how do we get to do what we do? how do we not turn off so we can come back and fill our cup back up and do work? that's all she was simply saying, and the conversation no