Takeback Tuesday
Takeback Tuesday: Lifting a glass to PPH
Pour you a beer? I’ll be working this great event along with Jonathan Franzen, Karen Joy Fowler, and Elizabeth McKenzie, raising money to support our local Planned Parenthood. But since this is a fundraiser, and you might live somewhat outside the driving area, you could just make a donation (…and we’ll owe you a beer.)…
Read MoreTaking back Tuesdays
Mornings begin chez King with tea and Facebook. And because I have a ridiculous number of “friends” (many of whom are actual friends; others I’m sure would be if we ever met) I set up a “family” feed with the posts of, sure, family but also people I enjoy beginning my day with. Two who…
Read MoreTakeback Tuesday: pour you a drink?
So, there’s new role coming up for Laurie: bartending for Planned Parenthood. In August, I’ll join Jonathan Franzen, Karen Joy Fowler, and Elizabeth McKenzie in serving drinks for a Planned Parenthood fundraiser at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Which should be interesting because I don’t know anything about cocktails—maybe they’ll put me in charge of the beer.…
Read MoreTakeback Tuesday: PBS
As public libraries are in a city’s streets or the Guardian or New York Times are in paper, so is your local PBS station in the air, broadcasting enlightenment, entertainment, and even wisdom. In that spirit, tonight I will be joining the fundraising night of my own local PBS station, KQED in San Francisco, to collect pledges. If you…
Read MoreLockdown: community efforts
Takeback Tuesdays are my small way of speaking out for what I perceive as sanity in the current political state of affairs. But in recent months, I’ve been struck time and again by how my life as a writer and my life as a person walk the same path. When I wrote Lockdown, I had…
Read MoreTaking back health care (from the House)
Takeback Tuesday: when Laurie King voices her opinion about the responsibilities of life in America. Insulated as I am in foreign travel and life in the Twenties, I still can’t overlook everything that’s going on at home. And this health care problem is immediate for me. Many of the people I know and love are…
Read MoreTakeback Tuesday: grandmas on benches
Last week’s Tuesday post was from London, and this week I’m in Venice. Hard at work. (Yes, really!) One thing travel illustrates, to anyone who has ever doubted it: people all over got their troubles. Country borders don’t draw a line on doubt and fear and pain. Not joy and laughter and affection, but unless…
Read MoreTakeback Tuesday: a sign of the times
Today’s Takeback Tuesday comes from the wilds of London, where I’m doing research, seeing people, and commiserating with family about Brexit (them) and #45 (me). So far I seem to be winning that Sad Place on points. But here’s a suggestion: You can take a similar message down to your local sign shop, to upload it to…
Read MoreTakeback Tuesday: a reminder
Today’s TBT is a reminder from NASA and my friends at Boing Boing, that we are delicate and precious and the universe is very large. That tiny dot between Saturn’s rings is us. You and me and everyone we love and hate and all our problems, right there. Our era may be one of strife…
Read MoreTakeback Tuesday: F train to Brooklyn
A lovely photo popped up on my Facebook feed yesterday: The caption read: A Taoist (me) gives up his seat so a Hasidic couple could sit together. They scoot over so a Muslim mother could sit and nurse her baby, on Easter Sunday. This is my America: People letting people be people. –Jackie Summers I…
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