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

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The Art of Rhetoric — If a Two-Year-Old Can Master It, So Can You

December 28, 2024 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

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Even my toddler knew how to ply the art of rhetoric. It’s something we humans use every day, on each other, starting at an early age.  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.

We’re Having a — Merry — Christmas Without the Kids This Year

December 25, 2013 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

A young woman carves the Thanksgiving turkey in the kitchen. Photo by BF Newhall

Christmas has gotten to be a scheduling nightmare in our family. Peter lives in Minnesota. Christina lives in Southern California. Jon and I live in Northern California. That puts 400 miles between us and our daughter and 1600 miles between us and our son and daughter-in-law. Not exactly over the river and through the woods. Read more.

Photo Ops: China’s One-Child Families — They’re for Real (For Now)

November 18, 2013 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

A mother in Shanghai China wipes the face of her schoolage boy in a crowded bazaar in Old Town. Photo by BF Newhall

China’s one-child families may soon be a thing of the past. But for now, they are very real. Jon and I saw them everywhere during our trip to China in September — and I took lots of pictures of mothers, fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers doting on that one child. Read more.

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I Need a Haircut. Or do I? Sheltering at Home. Week 9

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Nine weeks into the coronavirus shut-down, I’m wondering — do I need a haircut? What would happen if I just let it grow…and grow? Read more.

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