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Welcome to My Website . . . I Hope You’ll Stay a While

September 14, 2012 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Barbara Falconer with inner tube on beach, MI. Photo by Tinka/DB Falconer
Photo by D.B. Falconer

Welcome to my updated website. I feel like my 8-year-old self on the day my dad presented me with a brand new — used — inner tube with my name on it. It was ready to take me places, and I was ready to go.

I hope you’ll browse around a bit and enjoy my riffs on life from the point of view of a woman with a career, a husband, grown-up kids, a conscience — and an incurable case of the human condition.

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  1. Barbara Falconer Newhall says

    March 28, 2013 at 11:00 pm

    Welcome! I’m glad you found me.

  2. http://bing.com says

    February 15, 2013 at 2:43 am

    This amazing blog, “My New and Improved Website Is Here” reveals the fact that you truly know just what u are communicating about!
    I absolutely agree with your post. Thank you -Kiera

    • Barbara Falconer Newhall says

      February 16, 2013 at 11:06 am

      Thanks, Kiera. I’m having lots of fun with it.

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I’ve been contemplating writing this little photo essay on the toilets of China ever since I traveled there last September. It’s taken me all this time to overcome my mid-century Midwestern upbringing, where nice people didn’t talk about poop and pee in public. My nose for news finally prevailed, however when a Mainland Chinese couple allowed their toddler to urinate publicly on the streets of Hong Kong.

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