Kqeds Perspectives

A decade ago, the Giants won a World Series and Joan Dentler's son began his recovery from addiction.

An early-morning walk with her dog awakens Beth Touchette to the intense beauty of the pre-dawn world.

For adopted children, the chance to meet birth parents is filled with endless questions and a chance to open a new chapter in their life. Mateo Berger has this Perspective.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau looks at how we remember the animals we have loved.

Joan Steinau Lester worries that the Supreme Court is coming after her same-sex marriage. 

Evan Ho says an historic drought means Californians have to save a lot of water, a little bit at a time.

Michael Ellis has this perspective on a sociable and long flying bird. 

Johanna Rauhala is a proud resident of Richmond, a city with a less-than-deserved reputation.

Gillian Reynolds is exceptionally unexceptional at everything she tries. But she’s learned how exceptional that can be.

Anna Yang visits Beijing where her lack of language skills make it hard to connect to her family and culture.

While clearing a loft of junk to toss, Richard Friedlander encounters a box of forgotten memory.

Jeremy Friedlander and a good friend disagree about most things, but not their friendship.

Susan Dix Lyons knows that age may be a number, but its not just a number.

The war against Ukraine is personal for Natalie Krauss Bivas, and buried in soil soaked with the blood of innocents. 

Yvonne Baginski knows just what Joni Mitchell meant when she famously sang, "They paved paradise, put up a parking lot."

Angelina Montgomery's grandmother has lived here for 60 years but she never knew there were redwoods in Oakland.

Richard Swerdlow reflects on his 34 years as a teacher.

Y-R Media's Nina Thompson struggles to connect to politics dominated by much older officeholders.

Alex Giardino returns to the neonatal intensive care unit after 18 years and learns that hope is a circle. 

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