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Barbara Falconer Newhall

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

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I’m Thanking People a Lot These Days. Why Is That?

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I notice that I’ve been thanking people a lot lately. People — not God, not the Universe, not “the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.”  Read more. 

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Peter Newhall at the wheel of the family car, read to take his first solo drive. Photo by Barbara Newhall

Revisiting My First Blog Post Ever — How the Selective Service Made a Man of My Son

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View from the Tower of the Oakland, California, Tribune. The Clorox Building, the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Builing. Photos by Barbara Newhall

The Oakland Tribune Tower — A 1923 Structure With a Twenty-First Century View

4 preschool ballerinas in tutus at barre. Photo by BF Newhall

A Case of the Human Condition: Four-Year-Old Girls — The Last Bastion of Pretty

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