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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: Swing, Lindy, Fast Dancing — My Kind of Crazy

June 8, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Jon and I spent the weekend at his high school reunion in Southern California. Check out these youtube videos of the dancing from the era.

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Before the pandemic kept me from doing much driving, I did my Kegels whenever I stopped for a red light: Brake, pause. Kegel, Kegel, Kegel.  Read more.

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