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

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Widowed: The One Good Thing About Grief

March 9, 2024 By Barbara Falconer Newhall


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The one good thing about grief  is — there’s not a darned thing you can do about it. Someone has died, and that’s that.  Read more.

What Happens When You Drop Your Cell Phone Into the Sacred Buddhist Sand Painting?

March 26, 2015 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Monks of the Yellow Hat Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism create a sand paining in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Photo by Barbara Newhall

The red-robed monks spent days creating an intricate Tibetan sand painting. In one corner is a jagged spot where a visitor dropped her cell phone. Read more.

GodsBigBlog: Dancer Savitri Hari — God in the Lowly Things

May 4, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Savitri Hari finds the sacred in the lowly things. Savitri grew up in a Hindu family in a village in South India. “We children used to gather cow dung for a special holiday. We rolled the cow dung into a ball and drew mandala designs on it with rice flour.”

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Mad Men Exposes the ’60s Girdle — But Will She Get It Off in Time?

two women wearing 1960s Spirella Sarong girdle with sign "happiness is a flat tummy."

You can’t fool me. I know a girdle when I see one. A stewardess on Mad Men did a strip tease — but how was she going to get that girdle off without turning hot sex into farce? Read more.

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An austere floral design of calas and leaves reflects Robert Motherwell's painting, "At five in the Afternoon, 1950," at the Bouquets to Art show at the de Young. Photo by BF Newhall

The de Young This Week: Bursting With Art — And Flowers

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Yippee, an IPPY — “Wrestling with God” Wins the Gold

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Widowed: Where’s My Lead Pony?

In My Rain-Battered Garden — Nothing Is Forever, Not Even Those Poppies

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