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Barbara Falconer Newhall

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

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Our No TV Week — The Kids Survived, but Did I?

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What would happen, I wondered, if our family had no TV for a week. Who would complain the most? Read more.

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