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

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Yosemite — More Beautiful than the Himalayas?

December 12, 2011 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Al Aistrope at Tuolumne Meadows. Photo 2011 by Barbara Falconer Newhall

Is the Yosemite high country even more beautiful than the Himalayas? My hiking pal Al Aistrope thinks so. Read more.

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Superbowl: My Guys Are Talking Sports — And All Is Right With the World

nfl 2015 superbowl playoffs, seattle-greenbay, TV screen shot of game. Photo by Barbara Newhall

I like listening to my husband and son talk about football and basketball. I like the comfortable, father-son tone: My guys are talking sports and all is right with the world. Read more.

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An exotic orange blossom from Bloomster's floral designer Kren P. Rasmussen. Photo by BF Newhall

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