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

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Geographic Mobility in America — Watching My Grown-Up Kids Disappear

January 9, 2010 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

College student enters airport with suitcases to go to Carleton College for his freshman year. Photo by Barbara Falconer Newhall

Most of my grandmother’s children – there were seven of them – lived out their lives within walking distance of their mother’s white frame house in Scottville, Michigan. Not my father. He moved away. So did I. So has my son. Read more.

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Gray Hairs. Wrinkles. And Kids Who Won’t Stop Growing Up

Christina, Jon and Peter. Their mother had gray hairs, bu the kids were still small enough to cuddle. Photo by Barbara Newhall

Peter’s in fourth grade now. My third grade boy is gone. Christina has grown an inch since Easter. My size 6 girl is gone.  Read more.

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