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

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Whose Second Amendment Is It? The Gun Lobby’s? Or Gun Owners’?

October 29, 2017 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Wild deer hunting and sensible gun laws get in the way of hunters and other sportsmen? Photo by Barbara Newhall

I’d like to shut my mouth for a minute and give gun owners a chance to take responsibility for how the Second Amendment they cherish is implemented. Read more.

Do Books Have Rights? This One Didn’t. I Threw It in the Trash.

September 14, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

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It was a book, a children’s book. But I dumped it in the garbage anyway. I threw it out the way I would toss out a dead flashlight battery or a slab of moldy cheddar. Read more.

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My Days Are Numbered — And So Are My Minutes

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My days are numbered, so I’ve decided to be miserly about how I spend what’s left of them.  Read more.

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Sheltering at Home Revisited: The Virus Arrives

Willis Tower, Chicago. Photo by Barbara Newhall

Scaling the Mighty Willis Tower — With My Acrophilic Husband

Two lepidoptera sucking nectar from a white and yellow pansy in a San Francisco Bay Area garden in May. Photo by BF Newhall

In the Garden: Look What Happened to My Front Yard Over the Weekend

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Widowed: Advice From Beyond the Grave — Party On!

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