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

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Winter Solstice — My Mother’s Last Words to Me Before She Died

December 19, 2013 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

tinka falconer at Lake Michigan

My mother’s last words to me were nothing much. No parting words of love. No heartfelt messages to the grandchildren. Read more.

My Mother’s Last Words to Me Before She Died

December 21, 2012 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Barbara Falconer Newhall and Tinka Falconer at Nordstrom Cafe, Stanford, for lunch. Photo by BF Newhall.

My mother’s last words to me were nothing much. No parting words of love. No heartfelt messages to the grandchildren. Read more.

A Case of the Human Condition: Some Scenes from Birmingham, Michigan, Today

November 17, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

A Case of the Human Condition: It’s Us — The Class of ’59

November 16, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

We just keep getting better and better — and less and less like a bunch of adolescents. The class of 1959, Birmingham High School, Birmingham, Michigan, stopped talking long enough to let me take some pictures — October, 2009.

A Case of the Human Condition: You Can’t Go Home Again . . . Oh, But You Can

October 23, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

It turns out that, yes, you can go home again. If you’re me, that is. All I had to do was show up for my high school class reunion and there I was, back in Birmingham, Michigan.

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The Writing Room: Heather Donahue and Me – How I Got Hooked on a Pothead

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I bought Heather Donahue’s book about marijuana farming, "Grow Girl," because she’s a writer friend of a writer friend of mine. This is what happened.

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view of Cathedral Peak, Yosemite. Photo by Barbara Falconer Newhall

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Actor Robert Morse – Sweaty at 36, Sublime at 83

Auschwitz. Star of David patches were sewn on to the clothing of Jews during Nazi domination of Eastern Europe. On display at the Dohany Stree Synagogue, Budapest. Photo by Barbara Newhall

A Mother Who Prevailed at Auschwitz

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