KQED's Perspectives

With time on his hands, Richard Friedlander takes a walk and discovers a world he’d largely ignored – his own neighborhood.

Debbie Duncan looks at how COVID has changed our vocabulary.

Marcy Fraser was an AIDS nurse throughout that plague. Now she reaches out to all nurses on the frontlines of a new scourge.

Things are just things, but they’re also artifacts that tell the story a life. Dan Goldes has this Perspective. My 90‐year‐old mother died recently, and my two brothers and I spent a few days cleaning out her house in Santa Rosa. As we sorted through the drawers, cabinets, and boxes, we spent time laughing, crying a little, and ribbing her in absentia for all the things she saved: receipts from lo...

Have you spent a crazy amount of time on things that barely crossed your mind before, just because you have to do something with all that time? Linda Gebroe has.

For most of us, extended self-isolation is a new challenge. For Liz Travis Allen, it's old hat.

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A visitor from China provides Andrew Lewis a window into how the pandemic is being handled elsewhere. The difference is stark.

For Gabrielle Selz, working a jigsaw puzzle is about much more than idle entertainment.

Les Bloch has a toe tapping suggestion for beating the COVID blues.

Jason Saleh asks why the homes lost, deaths and displacement of wildlife aren't counted among the costs of wildfires.