KQED's Perspectives

When Sandhya Acharya's pandemic bubble burst, it was her young son's note that healed her.

A funeral. A eulogy. An ice storm. Evan Sagerman puts his father to rest.

Paul Staley says we’re walking in a world of the seen and the unseen, of paradox and contradiction.

When Paul Wolber thinks of vaccine hesitancy, he hears the voice of his mother, long ago, giving some instructions many would do well to heed today.

Stewart Florsheim struggled with whether to retire, but now he's taken the plunge. 

Zachary Matsumoto discovers that his family history is alive in him today.

In the lost and found of life, Holly Hubbard Preston learned that what you find isn’t necessarily what you were looking for.

For Lili Beechinor the most profound love has nothing to do with candy and flowers.

Michael Ellis takes a look at one of California's most dramatic birds.

Although not Jewish, Evan Ho is mesmerized by his first experience of a Bar Mitzvah.

Owners of rooftop solar systems, like Andrew Lewis, are outraged by a PUC proposal to impose sharp new costs on them.

High school student Sidrah Siddiqui wears a hijab and the reactions are awkward and uncomfortable.

Rat poison wipes out a family of owls that had delighted EK Bayer's neighborhood. 

Marilyn Englander says the pandemic has given birth to a new kind of village square.

YR Media's Nina Thompson feels she must choose between protecting her health and a good education.

After all the tests, pills, and procedures, the best medicine is still something that can’t be prescribed. Jane Thomas-Tran has this Perspective. I’m a medical student, just a few months from being a doctor, and 100% of my clinical training has occurred in the COVID era. To me, hospital rooms filled with get-well-soon cards and eager visitors are a relic of the past. A beloved grandfather comes to...

It's been a rough year for San Francisco's eclectic entertainment community, but Connie Champagne hopes better time aren't just somewhere over the rainbow.

At-home COVID test kits are in short supply, posing some tough choices for families like Vanessa Dueck's. 

A most unusual relationship is at the heart of young Jackie Tavernetti’s introduction to homelessness.

As teachers, administrators, students, and parents wrestle with COVID restrictions, Richard Swerdlow sees a bright ray of hope. Schools from coast to coast are struggling to stay open as the pandemic rages. With so many teachers out sick, schools are deploying everyone, even superintendents, to cover classes. I was sent to teach first grade. Teachers may be essential workers, but classrooms feel l...

As the pandemic drags on, Dr. Baldeep Singh is seeing many patients who are not only having trouble physically but also mentally and emotionally. When Dennis came to see me, I could see something was wrong. He started telling me about fatigue, headaches, and trouble sleeping. After some probing, he shared that his marriage was tense, work was a struggle, and the stress of COVID on him and his fami...

A persistent question makes grieving the loss of her sister to COVID much harder for Anna Beuselinck.

At age 7, Mateo Berger traveled to Guatemala to meet his birth mother and explore endless questions.

A night long ago in a Balkan village highlights for Richard Friedlander the changed standards for how we treat the elderly.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau carves up the notion that eating meat is manly.