Kqeds Perspectives

Debbie Duncan looks at how COVID has changed our vocabulary.

Marcy Fraser was an AIDS nurse throughout that plague. Now she reaches out to all nurses on the frontlines of a new scourge.

Things are just things, but they’re also artifacts that tell the story a life. Dan Goldes has this Perspective. My 90‐year‐old mother died recently, and my two brothers and I spent a few days cleaning out her house in Santa Rosa. As we sorted through the drawers, cabinets, and boxes, we spent time laughing, crying a little, and ribbing her in absentia for all the things she saved: receipts from long‐ago purchases, paintings my younger brother and I made in grade school, books she’d read decades before. Why, I thought, does someone save all this stuff? Then I realized that what we were looking at were artifacts. My mother was born into the Depression and was divorced with a young son by the early 1950s. She made her way to a new life in California, married again, had two more sons, divorced a second time, and spent the next 40 years discovering her path. That path wasn’t always easy for a 50‐something woman who had spent 20 years raising kids. As I looked at the boxes of stuff we were giving to friends, donati

Have you spent a crazy amount of time on things that barely crossed your mind before, just because you have to do something with all that time? Linda Gebroe has.

For most of us, extended self-isolation is a new challenge. For Liz Travis Allen, it's old hat.

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A visitor from China provides Andrew Lewis a window into how the pandemic is being handled elsewhere. The difference is stark.

For Gabrielle Selz, working a jigsaw puzzle is about much more than idle entertainment.

Les Bloch has a toe tapping suggestion for beating the COVID blues.

Jason Saleh asks why the homes lost, deaths and displacement of wildlife aren't counted among the costs of wildfires.