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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Food banks are overwhelmed and people are hungry, yet we waste food shamelessly. A child of post-war Germany, Christine Schoefer vows to change her ways.
Ann Manheimer hopes the reception for masses of Ukrainians fleeing their war-torn country marks a change in the treatment of refugees.
As Ukrainians fight to preserve their recent democracy, Joan Cardellino says Americans need to defend a democracy many take for granted.
When YR Media's Ivelisse Diaz was younger her paycheck felt like freedom. Now, not so much.
Andrew Lewis says Ukrainians are showing the world what it means to defend democracy.
Richard Swerdlow looks at old photos of himself and has his 'you don't know what you've got till its gone' moment.
Eighth-grader Maya Hardin learns how to not be too hard on herself.
Gloria Saltzman tries to console an old friend from Ukraine who feels angry and helpless in the face of the Russian onslaught.
At a tender age, Amelia Anglin must learn how to cope with the death of a loved one.
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.
