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

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Book Openers: I Still Haven’t Figured Out How to Pray — But I’m in Good Company

July 20, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

“I am a failure at prayer,” author Barbara Brown Taylor confesses . . . Now there’s a woman after my own heart.

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The Dracena Is Dead. Long Live the Dracena

Homeowner succeeds in removing eight-foot stalk from an overgrown dracena marginata plant. Photo by Barbara Newhall

I did it. I cut the dracena marginata growing wild in our living room down to size. Read more.

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Pete Holmes, Stephen Colbert (and God) on Life and Death

John Donne's poetry is as turbulent and evocative as this Lake Michigan surf in summertime. Photo by Barbara Falconer Newhall

John Donne — A Love Affair With a Poet Long Dead

Memorial to journalists killed in the line of duty at the Newseum in Washington, D.C, bears the names of thousands of journalists. Photo by Sam Kittner/Newseum

Journalists Killed in the Line of Duty: Foley, Sotloff Joined by Dozens Each Year

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Halloween — A Day for the Dead

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