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

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A Case of the Human Condition: Another Threat to Lake Michigan — Asian Carp

January 26, 2010 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

My Michigan friends are emailing me about the Asian carp threatening to enter Lake Michigan and the other Great Lakes from the Illinois canal system. The carp would seriously endanger fish and other wildlife in the Lakes and local rivers.

Book Openers: Green for God

March 27, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

A review of two new books that explore the confluence of spiritual and environmental concerns, “Holy Ground: A Gathering of Voices on Caring for Creation” from Sierra Club books, and “The Green Bible: Understand the Bible’s Powerful Message for the Earth” from HarperOne.

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Watching People Working With Their Hands — Why Am I So Fascinated? Sheltering in Place Week 25

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In Bologna they call them umarells, men hanging around building sites, watching people working with their hands. I’m an umarell. Here’s why. Read more.

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The view from the bow of a ferry boat making its way through the San Juan Islands in summer. Photo by Barbara Newhall

San Juan Islands Flora: Or, I Cling, Therefore I Am

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My Upper Lip and Other Sorrows

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Dying Jesus . . . Dying Churches?

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Jon Was a Sports Fan. Am I?

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