Category Archives: A Case of the Human Condition

Personal essays. One woman’s journey.

A Case of the Human Condition: Our Christmas Candy Is — Gone!

Our Christmas candy is all gone. Gone. Like a lot of good things in life — mothers, fathers, old friends, colleagues.

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A Case of the Human Condition: Fewer Marriages — but More Facebook Relationships?

By Barbara Falconer Newhall Apparently, fewer Americans are getting married these days. (Check out the PBS Newshour story.) But lots and lots of people are doing the next best thing: making a public declaration of being in a relationship — on Facebook. Neither of my twenty/thirty-something kids is married. But both are telling the world they’re in [...]

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A Case of the Human Condition: Holy Sex Toys

Christians, Jews, Muslims — and maybe even a Buddhist or two — they’re discovering the joy of sex, with a little help from sex toys.

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Yosemite — More Beautiful than the Himalayas?

Is the Yosemite high country even more beautiful than the Himalayas? My hiking pal Al Aistrope thinks so.

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More Pix of Beautiful Yosemite High Country

It was spring in September in the Yosemite high country this year. More pictures . . .

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