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	<title>Barbara Falconer Newhall&#187; family</title>
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	<description>Journalist Barbara Falconer Newhall reports from the the second half of life -- on books, writing . . . her husband, house, aging relatives and grown-up kids.</description>
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		<title>A Case of the Human Condition: How Facebook Helped Jana Riess Grieve</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Falconer Newhall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it true that Facebook has a policy of shutting down a FB account when the owner has died, to the distress of friends and family who visit the site?]]></description>
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		<title>Twenty-two Years Later, A Tiananmen Survivor Finally Tells All</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Openers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-two years after the crack-down at Tiananmen Square, a leader of the protests there finally tells her story. Why did it take so long?

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		<title>A Case of the Human Condition: Respect for Our Undeserving Elders</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 04:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Case of the Human Condition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peter Newhall]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tinka Falconer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Move," said my 6-year-old son Peter to his grandmother. "I want to get by." My mother looked up from her book and gave my son a hard look. 

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		<title>Why I Can&#8217;t Write My Memoir &#8212; Not the Part About My Mom Anyway</title>
		<link>http://barbarafalconernewhall.com/2010/05/04/the-writing-room-and-my-serious-case-of-the-human-condition/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-writing-room-and-my-serious-case-of-the-human-condition</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 18:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Writing Room]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broken hip]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[elderly parent]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[grapefruit salad]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driving home the other day from just one of countless visits to my mom at the hospital, I had to ask myself , why aren't I writing about her? ]]></description>
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		<title>Wait for Me! (Keeping up With the Twenty-Somethings)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Case of the Human Condition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was a tiny preschooler, pumping away on my tricycle, near tears because the big kids were leaving me behind. Today, I was a lot older -- and left in the dust again.]]></description>
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		<title>The Trouble With Daffodils — and My Writing</title>
		<link>http://barbarafalconernewhall.com/2010/04/11/a-case-of-the-human-condition-the-trouble-with-daffodils/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-case-of-the-human-condition-the-trouble-with-daffodils</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The trouble with daffodils is they have no subtext. They are all cheer and sparkle and optimism. They are avatars of perky. They get on my nerves.]]></description>
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		<title>A Case of the Human Condition: Four-Year-Old Girls — The Last Bastion of Pretty</title>
		<link>http://barbarafalconernewhall.com/2010/03/27/a-case-of-the-human-condition-four-year-old-girls-the-last-bastion-of-pretty/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-case-of-the-human-condition-four-year-old-girls-the-last-bastion-of-pretty</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Case of the Human Condition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pink dresses, powder blue dresses. Dresses with nosegays, kitty cats and sunbursts. Little girls, it seems, are the last stronghold of prettiness in today's society.
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		<title>A Case of the Human Condition: A Child Is Born — And So Is a Grandpa</title>
		<link>http://barbarafalconernewhall.com/2010/02/13/an-aging-case-of-the-human-condition-a-child-is-born-and-like-it-or-not-my-friend-is-now-gramps/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=an-aging-case-of-the-human-condition-a-child-is-born-and-like-it-or-not-my-friend-is-now-gramps</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Jake is a man in his prime. He does triathlons, reads good books, knows all the best hiking trails and drinks nice wines. Jake has never been anybody's rickety old grandpa -- until recently, when Jake's daughter gave birth to a baby girl.
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		<title>A Case of the Human Condition: The Center of the Universe? It’s a Little Beach in Michigan, of Course</title>
		<link>http://barbarafalconernewhall.com/2010/01/30/lake/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=lake</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I were drawing a map of the world, its center would be at Bass Lake, just where its outlet flows into the great, blue Lake Michigan. I have lived in California for nearly two decades, but like my forebears - my mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother - I return to Lake Michigan every chance I get.]]></description>
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		<title>A Case of the Human Condition: Geographic Mobility in America — Watching My Kids Disappear</title>
		<link>http://barbarafalconernewhall.com/2010/01/09/a-case-of-the-human-condition-watching-my-grandmother-disappear/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-case-of-the-human-condition-watching-my-grandmother-disappear</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of my grandmother's children - there were seven of them - lived out their lives within walking distance of their mother's white frame house in Scottville, Michigan. Not my father. He moved away. So did I. So has my son.

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		<title>A (Pillow) Case of the Human Condition: Time to Crack Open That Hope Chest and Live a Little</title>
		<link>http://barbarafalconernewhall.com/2010/01/02/a-pillowcase-of-the-human-condition-time-to-crack-open-that-hope-chest-and-live-a-little/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-pillowcase-of-the-human-condition-time-to-crack-open-that-hope-chest-and-live-a-little</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I waited too long to get married. By the time Jon and I said our vows, the contents of my hope chest had become outdated, old-fashioned, fussy -- unusable. As a result, after thirty some years of marriage, I continue to be the owner of a dozen or so beautiful, hand-embroidered, virginal pillowcases. 
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