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When My Mother Was the Grandma

October 19, 2024 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

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

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

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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