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Father’s Day vs. Mother’s Day — And Today’s Liberated Dads

June 17, 2023 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

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Father’s Day vs. Mother’s Day? With today’s young men doing more and more of the parenting, why not celebrate fathers as heartily as we do mothers?  Read more.

At the Octopus Literary Salon — Women Reading Stories About Women

May 9, 2018 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Barbara Falconer Newhall's next book, she hopes, will include columns she wrote for a local newspaper back in the 1980s. Photo by Barbara Newhall

For Mother’s Day gift-giving inspiration, stop by Oakland’s Octopus Literary Salon on May 12 to hear San Francisco Bay Area women read from their books and poetry . Read more.

“Listen to Your Mother” — Moms Across the Country Get the Mic for Mother’s Day

April 25, 2015 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Nancy Davis Kho read from her story published in "Listen to Your Mother" (Putnam) book reading at A Great Good Place for Books bookstore in Oakland, CA, April 24, 2015. Photo by Barbara Newhall

It was a fun night at A Great Good Place for Books when three funny ladies celebrated “Listen to Your Mother” an Erma Bombeck style collection of mom stories. Read more.

Do Books Have Rights? This One Didn’t. I Threw It in the Trash.

September 14, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

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It was a book, a children’s book. But I dumped it in the garbage anyway. I threw it out the way I would toss out a dead flashlight battery or a slab of moldy cheddar. Read more.

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With a Little Luck You’ll Live Long Enough to Breed Flies in Your Attic

Dead flies caught on sticky fly paper. They didn't live long. Photo by Barbara Newhall

Back in 1987 old age seemed a long ways away. It still does.  Read more.

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The back of a hiker's boots, on the trail. Photo by Barbara Newhall

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