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Barbara Falconer Newhall

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

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Widowed: The Perfect Husband. The Perfect Christmas Tree

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Widowed: The perfect husband? The perfect Christmas tree? I started a list of all the things that annoyed me about Jon. But I lost the list.  Read more.

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What to Do With Those Battered Old Baby Shoes? Hide Them in a Wall, of Course

A periwinkle blue fiberglass cast on a man with a broken ankle and a torn ligament. Photo by Barbara Newhall

One Broken Ankle, and Two Lives Grind to a Halt. Or, Why You Should Definitely Stop and Tie That Loose Shoelace

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A Marriage Proposal — The Man Said Yes

The underside of a speckled orange Lilium blossom. Photo by Barbara Newhall

Point-and-Shoot Heaven: Photographing a Flower Garden Just Before Dusk

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