Alina Jafri: Ms Marvel
Alina Jafri finds a role model in a comic book.
Apr 26, 2021•4 min
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Michael Ellis: The Deserts of California
Michael Ellis tours the three types of desert in California.
Apr 23, 2021•4 min
Laura Weil: How We Die
Laura Weil says the pandemic has made us look at everything differently, including how we die.
Apr 22, 2021•4 min
Sandhya Acharya: End In Sight
Sandhya Acharya looks at the year of the pandemic and considers what she will miss and what she won't.
Apr 21, 2021•4 min
Paul Staley: The Un-Birthday
Paul Staley celebrates the day before his birthday as a reminder that he’ll spend far more time not in this world than in it.
Apr 20, 2021•4 min
Jaime Flores: Keeping Youth Out of Jail
Jaime Flores advocates for supportive programs to keep young people out of jail.
Apr 19, 2021•4 min
Dorothy O’Donnell: Too Old For the Hiking Group
The email that told Dorothy O'Donnell she was too old for the hiking group surprised her. Then it made her angry.
Apr 16, 2021•4 min
Charlotte Sivanich: Financial Literacy for Students
Charlotte Sivanich says too few students are taught financial literacy and many never learn.
Apr 15, 2021•4 min
Lane Parker: Listen To Your Plants
Can plants talk to us? Lane Parker says science fact is meeting science fiction.
Apr 14, 2021•4 min
Vanessa Dueck: Back to School
As schools cautiously begin to reopen, Vanessa Dueck and her young children are ready for a taste of normal.
Apr 13, 2021•4 min
Margie O’Driscoll: A Changing San Francisco
Margie O'Driscoll set out to observe how the pandemic has changed San Francisco.
Apr 12, 2021•4 min
Larry Jin Lee: Return to Angel Island
Angel Island graces San Francisco Bay, but its buildings house one of the darkest times in American immigration history, when Chinese, even Chinese American citizens, were subjected to harsh discrimination. Larry Jin Lee has this Perspective. I have not been on Angel Island since I was a teenager and a visit was long overdue. But I was not fully aware back then of the historical significance of Angel Island to my family. My great grandfather and grandfather were detained there several times even...
Apr 09, 2021•4 min
Debbie Duncan: Every Shot Is a Story
More than three million Americans are getting vaccinated each day, and Debbie Duncan says each shot is a story.
Apr 08, 2021•4 min
Deidre Silverman: An Encounter With Bees
Deidre Silverman encounters a wondrous swarm of bees on a simple walk near her home.
Apr 07, 2021•4 min
Tracy Coté: Presence
Hiring managers say they’re looking for something called ‘presence’. Tracy Cote says it’s code for ‘just like me’.
Apr 06, 2021•4 min
Avery Grant: The Strength of Silence
Avery Grant says the quiet voices are often the ones most worth listening to.
Apr 05, 2021•4 min
Sarah Javier: Erased
Racism thrives on ignorance of the history that isn’t taught is history erased. Sarah Javier has this Perspective. Patriotism was plentiful in my childhood as a Filipino-American U.S. Navy brat. But despite how American I was, I often felt like a foreigner in my conservative Southern hometown. I thought things would change once I moved to the Bay, where I was finally surrounded by people who looked like me. I realized I was still an outsider. The United States has erased Asians from its past. Hi...
Apr 01, 2021•4 min
Lynn Bruno: Universal and Free
In the COVID vaccination program, Lynn Bruno sees elements of a health care system we can only dream about.
Mar 31, 2021•4 min
Ellen Greenblatt: A Walk Under a Full Moon
Ellen Greenblatt encounters herself during a walk under a full moon.
Mar 30, 2021•4 min
Richard Swerdlow: Putting on Pandemic Pounds
Richard Swerdlow says that pandemic inactivity has led to a spike in overweight children.
Mar 29, 2021•4 min
Michael Ellis: The Jay
Michael Ellis looks at the family of Bay Area jays and why they keep whacking into our windows.
Mar 26, 2021•4 min
Amber Ly: Protecting Asian Parents
Young Asian Americans are focused right now on making sure their parents are safe.
Mar 25, 2021•4 min
Molly Curley O’Brien: A Requiem For Mills College
She’s been on life support before, but now her survival is in serious jeopardy. Molly Curley O’Brien has this Perspective. We lost a Bay Area legend last week. Benicia born and Oakland raised, a critical thinker, a leader, a feminist, a social justice warrior, and committed to the pursuit of knowledge. Mills College, as we know it, died of COVID-19 related complications. She was 169 years old. Or did we? What is happening with Mills College is not unprecedented. Women’s colleges have suffered fr...
Mar 24, 2021•4 min
Billy Zeng: Please Listen To Us
Asian Americans speak many languages, but in the midst of unprecedented attacks, they speak with one voice. Billy Zeng has this Perspective. 請聽聽我們 Please Listen to us We are frightened, upset and frustrated 請跟我們說話 Please talk to us In Hoisanwah, Thai, Mandarin, In Vietnamese, Khmer, Cantonese In Korean, Japanese, Hakka, In Tagalog, Cebuano, Teochew And in many languages we speak Which may or may not include English 請看看我們 Please look at us We are many in a loose category. We are your doctors, law...
Mar 23, 2021•4 min
Marilyn Englander: Embracing Life
As vaccinations climb and pandemic restrictions ease, many are contemplating how to make up for lost time and missed opportunities. Marilyn Englander has this Perspective. It’s been a year of fear, trimming expectations and hoping to control fate. Chastising my kids to be careful, scolding when someone forgets the mask, scowling at rule-breakers – it’s been exhausting. And pretty much fruitless: people will do what they will do. Now, two dear 80-something friends in Philadelphia, exhilarated by ...
Mar 22, 2021•4 min
Be A Good Man
Hank Smith struggles to live up to the simple words from his autistic son.
Mar 19, 2021•4 min
Andrew Lewis: A Wing and a Prayer
Andrew Lewis seeks to protect the fragile, miraculous life of a wounded Monarch butterfly.
Mar 18, 2021•4 min
Jim McClellan: Broken Places
Jim McClelland turns to an ancient Japanese art for hope that a broken country can be repaired, and better for it.
Mar 17, 2021•4 min
Tom Moriarty: Chipped
Vaccines are ramping up and with them, of course, the conspiracy theories. Tom Moriarty finds one of them especially ironic. My favorite conspiracy theory about the coronavirus vaccine is that each shot contains a tiny microchip designed to track our every move. I admire this particular piece of nonsense because it overlooks the fact that most of us have already been tagged and can be tracked down by Bill Gates or the government pretty much at will. Big business and other nefarious actors can al...
Mar 16, 2021•4 min
Alisa Peres: Together, We Persist
Teacher Alisa Peres says she gets through the stress of teaching in a pandemic with a lot of help from her colleagues.
Mar 15, 2021•4 min
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