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KQED's Perspectives

Our series of of daily listener commentaries since 1991.
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Episodes

Larry Jin Lee: Stressed Out

Even psychotherapist Larry Jin Lee is having trouble coping with anxiety and depression during the pandemic.

Dec 15, 20204 min

Marcy Fraser: On the Frontlines

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

Dec 10, 20204 min

Dan Goldes: Artifacts

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 ...

Dec 09, 20204 min

Linda Gebroe: The Electric Can Opener

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.

Dec 08, 20204 min

Gabrielle Selz: Puzzling

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

Dec 02, 20204 min

Jason Saleh: Fire Victims

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

Nov 30, 20204 min
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