KQED's Perspectives
Summary: Perspectives is KQED Public Radio's series of daily commentaries by our listeners. Essays cover a broad range of social and political issues, cultural observations and personal experiences of interest to KQED's Northern California audience.
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Rachel Averbuck's small shoe shop is battling the huge online retailers and need you this holiday season.
Agnes Torres Al-Shibibi celebrates California's Spanish heritage as spoken in the names of the places we inhabit.
Y-R Media's Ivelisse Diaz hopes this Christmas will bring the warmth and joy that was missing last year.
Nirmy Kang's son is applying to college and she doesn't like what she sees.
80 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor that marked the beginning of World War II for the U.S., Michael Von der Porten remembers three Sonoma County men who died that day.
Nathalie Jimenez learns that even a small helping hand can be a big hand up.
Michael Ellis says the origins of mistletoe as a seasonal rite are surprising.
Selina Kaing's family tradition of blending old ways with new American habits resides in a box of birthday candles.
The email that told Dorothy O'Donnell she was too old for the hiking group surprised her. Then it made her angry.
Wilfredo Molina learns that trying too hard to please your peers can lead to trouble.
Paul Staley considers the ins and outs, literally, of the holiday season.
Dan Goldes does his part to prepare and serve a Thanksgiving meal for the homeless.
Thanksgiving celebrates family, but for Sara Alexander the definition of both family and Thanksgiving has changed with age.
Richard Swerdlow says "are you vaxed?" is the simple Thanksgiving question that's awkward to ask.
A tremendous amount of food ends up as waste and Sara Orem is on a campaign to reduce her contribution.