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Sheltering at Home: Day Zero

March 17, 2020 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

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The deadly COVID-19 virus is stalking the San Francisco Bay Area and authorities have ordered me and my neighbors to be sheltering at home starting now. Read more.

Zumba at The Hills! Authentic, Never-Before-Published Video of Real People Moving Their Bods!

June 2, 2012 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Barbara Falconer Newhall Zumbas with teacher Toni. Photo by Jon Newhall

Want to see some sexy dancing? My favorite Zumba teachers and their fast-footed Zumba students show their stuff on a video. That’s me on the left. Read more.

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What If You Threw a Book Launch — And Everybody Came?

A room full of empty chairs at Book Passage bookstore, California, awaits Barbara Falconer Newhall's book launch for "Wrestling with God." Photo by Jon Newhall

Was anyone going to show up? My author event Book Passage  would start soon, and there were dozens of very empty chairs, waiting to be filled. Read more.

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Tinka Falconer enjoys Nordstrom Cafe chicken and berry salad. Photo by BF Newhall.

My Mother’s Last Words to Me Before She Died

A page from the Bleichrode prayer book published in Berlin, 1923, showing the first lines of the Mourner's Kaddish in Hebrew script. Photos by BF Newhall

An Episcopalian Says Kaddish for Her Jewish Aunt

Widowed: If I Visit His Grave, Will It Help?

Garden Artisan Jillian Steinberger prunes the camellias in Barbara Falconer Newhall's yard. Photo by Barbara Newhall

In the Garden With the Grammar Geek: Is It Ever OK to Use the Passive Voice?

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