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When Your Sick Kid Is 28 Years Old and 2000 Miles Away 

September 28, 2017 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Grown-up 30-year-old man says goodbye after a Thanksgiving visit home. Photo by Barbara Newhall

What do you do when you’ve got a grown-up kid in the hospital half a continent away? Jump on a plane? Stick by the phone? Read more.

A Case of the Human Condition: Long-Distance Mothering

June 2, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Peter is fine. His appendix was twice the size of normal. But it’s gone for good.

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Blood and Guts in My Backyard. Or, Nature Tidies Up

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Blood and guts in my backyard: A half-eaten deer lay sprawled under my cypress tree. Ravens croaked the news from the tree above.  Read more.

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