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

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When My Mother Was the Grandma

October 19, 2024 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

when my mother was the grandma

My mother was the grandma in the family. She deserved respect from our kids. Not because she’d earned it, but because she was the grandma.  Read more.

The Center of the Universe Lives at Our House

October 29, 2015 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

A newborn baby, a few weeks old, is held by his adoring parents. Barbara Newhall Photo

Children run the world. And everyone who’s ever had a kid knows it. Read more.

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Grace Falconer Perlmutter Kleis — How to Be a Glamorous Gal at Age 98

A glamorous red-head with her great nephew

My aunt was tall, red-headed, blue-eyed, self-sufficient and glamorous at a time and place when most women in her hometown wanted nothing more than to get married, have babies and put up green beans and blackberry jam. Read more.

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A Baby to Adopt — The Letter That Made It Happen Forty Years Ago

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I Confess. In 2020, I Washed the Potatoes. With Soap

Displayed at the East Bay Heritage Quilters show "Voices in Cloth 2016" quilt show in Richmond, CA.. a detail of "Hopscotch," by Susan Fuller. Photo by Barbara Newhall.

East Bay Heritage Quilters — Quilts, Dazzling Quilts

Robert Tharratt portrait. Man with beard and glasses. World War II vets. Barbara Newhall photo

How Three World War II POWs Saved Each Other’s Lives

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