Related: “Minibabble: Getting to Know Us – Liberal women in coastal California“ I was ambivalent about going anywhere on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, this year otherwise known as Inauguration....

An ode to humanity’s first instrument In which host Suki Wessling reflects on a life of singing. Singing as therapy, singing as memory, singing as body, singing as meditation, singing....

“It’s really kind of transcendental, this way that a group can come together to bring meaning to sound through our bodies.” Composer Anne Hege practices a rarefied profession. Not only....

This is an unusual version of “Just me, talking to you.” In this case, I recorded my thoughts while walking in the redwoods. It’s largely unedited (I took out a....

A transgender elder reflects on the election I spoke to Stephanie Jacobs for the first time on the phone. It wasn’t until we’d spoken for a while about politics and....

Stephanie Jacobs has had a long career covering elections for CBS News. But it wasn't until she moved to California and became a California girl that politics became personal.

Writer, researcher, designer and entrepreneur Brenda Laurel started in theater, moved to videogames and then virtual reality, and ended up as an academic. This mini-episode, based on the full-length interview....

A couple of months ago, my fellow K-Squid programmer, Debra Sloss, asked me to help with an episode of her show, State of Mind. She’d received some beautiful, thoughtful pieces....

Near the end of my recent interview with Brenda Laurel, she talks about the responsibility of content creators in our current world. “What we can do, what I hope we....

In this conversation with Brenda Laurel, we explore how girls play and what that means for women and game designers. We talk about the relationship between theater and gaming, and how the gaming world grew to change the way children live and develop. We talk about the importance of teaching. But most of all, we talk about what it means to be a creator in this world, someone who asks others to entrust their minds to our work.