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Barbara Falconer Newhall

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

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

February 2, 2013 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

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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There’s a Pollinator in My Pollinator Garden

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The columbine, the statice and the armeria had been planted only a week earlier, but already there was a pollinator in my pollinator garden.  Read more.

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John Shelby Spong: Christianity (Some of It) Is Bunk

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6-year-old boy dressed as cowboy. photo by barbara newhall

A Case of the Human Condition: When a Six-Year-Old Flies Solo

A red and yellow detail of Dale Chihuly's glass sculpture "Mille Fiore" at the Chihuly Garden and Glass museum in Seattle. Photo by Barbara Newhall

Dale Chihuly’s Glass: Fine Art? Kitsch? Or Both?

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