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It’s Spring in Our Brilliant, Bursting, Buzzing Front Yard

March 20, 2012 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

I live in California where spring peaks in March. And by last week the little patch of hillside that is our front yard was alive with color. Read more.

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A Case of the Human Condition: A Half Century Later I’m Still a Size 10 . . . OK, 12

I wore a size 10 in high school way back in 1959 and a size 12 in college. That was twenty plus pounds ago, but I can still squeeze into size 10 (or 12) jeans. Am I remembering my young self all wrong? Read more.

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