Kqeds Perspectives

A poem in a volume pulled from a bookstore shelf, helps Simone Green navigate her journey of discovery.

Birdsongs at sunrise provide Theresa Padden and her mother with a moment of shared beauty while an inevitable loss looms over them.

What happens when your favorite books and movies lose their luster? Richard Levitt shares how he’s trying to get his groove back.

YR Media's Phoebe Lefebvre grew up around the corner from Oakland's Wood Street homeless encampment. She shares her concerns about the lack of solutions the city has offered the residents who were evicted.

For many Muslims, Ramadan is the most challenging part of the year. For Salma Siddiqui, it’s an opportunity to express gratitude for the right to struggle. 

Pablo Quintanilla says racial deed restrictions are the ghosts that haunt Bay Area home ownership to this day.

Helen Doyle reflects on how California’s spring bloom is flourishing all around us.

May I have this dance? Aurelia Santos invites us to join the festivities.

What can a Turkey and a Tesla teach us about ourselves? Well, apparently a whole lot.

I did it my way; a young San Franciscan shares his thoughts on entrepreneurial success.

How a part time job taught Mannya Sinha about the inherent imbalances of the food service industry.

To most beachgoers, seaweed is just an underwater weed. But to Chloe Chan, it's an introduction to a community of kelp foragers. 

When Alex Giardino's only son left for college, she found her empty nest rapidly filling up with plants. 

Alice Wong can no longer speak. But she still has a voice.

Tomorrow, May 18, is the annual Bike to Work Day. Bob Riley tells us why he participates.

Processing grief takes many forms. For Yvonne Baginski, it comes in the form of a backyard bird community.

You might think dogs have it made as man’s co-pilot. Richard Friedlander’s tale suggests otherwise.

The refugee experience is rife with unthinkable hardship, and also glimmers of hope. Lana Moroz has this Perspective.

Oliver River Satalich is not a girl, but their childhood as a girl taught them valuable lessons about life and self-discovery.

Grammar enthusiast Tice Swackhamer has a theory on how society changes language, and a call to action to save the word “are.”