Veteran journalist Barbara Falconer Newhall reports from the scene on books, writing . . . and life as she knows it.
Going crazy in my front yard — geraniums, blue-eyed grass (a California native) and the moss rock, at lower right. Photos by BF Newhall
By Barbara Falconer Newhall
I wasn’t looking. I was at the computer all weekend with my back to the world. When I finally took a bleary look out the window on Monday morning, I saw a front yard crazy with life – poppies, [Read more...]
By Barbara Falconer Newhall
When I think of March, I think of mud. Half frozen, slurpy, messy, car-stuck-in-the-road mud.
That’s because I grew up in Michigan, where March is the most unnerving month of the year. One day it’s warmish and the world smells like spring. The next day the thermometer drops, it’s winter again and odors vanish in the cold. [Read more...]
Jillian Steinberger, the Garden Artisan, is a doer. Here, she tames our unruly rhododendron with pruning shears. Photos by BF Newhall.
By Barbara Falconer Newhall
Writing teachers have been warning us against using the passive voice since high school. And rightly so. Passive sentences can be wordy and vague. But they can also come in handy. [Read more...]
