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Barbara Falconer Newhall

Veteran journalist Barbara Falconer Newhall riffs on life as she knows it.

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Was I a Tradwife in the 1980s? Or a Liberated Woman in Progress?

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Was I a tradwife back in the 1980s?  Or was I a second-wave feminist still figuring out how to make the marriage-family-career thing work?  Read more.

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Too Many Angry Diatribes. Not Enough Tact. Why?

A three-by-five card with a teenager's promise to do work for her mother; it's a gift coupon. Photo by BF Newhall.

A Forgotten Gift From My Teenaged Daughter — No Good After December 31

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A Leap Year Leap: She Asked. He Said Yes.

At an exhibit table at the 2014 meeting of the Religion Newswriters Association are Robyn Blumner,Executive Director of the Richard Dawkins Foundation, and Todd Stiefel of Stiefel Freethought Foundation. Photo by Barbara Newhall

The Atheists Are Coming – Out of a Closet Near You

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