for the song. She asked my dad to take the wheel, and she wrote it on the way to the gathering in La Honda where she was going to sing for the Friends Committee on Legislation. When Time Magazine (I think, maybe Newsweek) wanted a photo of her pointing to the very place, she couldn't find those houses because so many more had been built around them that the hillsides were totally covered. In her later years, Reynolds contributed songs and material to PBS' Sesame Street, on which she made occasional appearances as a character named Kate. Activism In 1977, Reynolds became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP). WIFP is an American non-profit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media. Other In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Reynolds's name and picture. Reynolds was a Unitarian Universalist. Death Shortly after Bud Reynolds' death in September 1972, Reynolds was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis. But she refused to let the disease keep her from her usual performance schedule until the afternoon of March 15, 1978, when she fell ill after a photo shoot in Berkeley. Rushed to the hospital, she died during the early morning hours of March 17, 1978. Legacy Reynolds' career was subject to a biographical short film, Love It Like a Fool, released in 1977 and directed by Susan Wengraf. Reynolds' song "Little Boxes" was used as the theme for the TV show Weeds. The TV show Big Sky featured the song “Little Boxes” at the end of the episode aptly titled “Little Boxes.” In 2020, most of the second verse of her one-minute ditty "Place to Be," as recorded by her, was used as the sound for a Zillow commercial. Two of her songs are included on The Specials’ album Protest Songs 1924–2012 (2021). References External links Biography at Sister's Choice Memories of her mother, by Malvina Reynolds' daughter Smithsonian Folkways- Malvina Reynolds Malvina Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems Complete discography Orange County Weekly Retrospective Orange County Weekly Memoir 1900 births 1978 deaths American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent American people of Russian-Jewish descent University of California, Berkeley alumni Jewish American musicians American folk singers Columbia Records artists Songwriters from San Francisco Singers from San Francisco American women singer-songwriters 20th-century American singers