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Seaholm: My Old High School — It’s Not Stuck in the Twentieth Century

November 18, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall 6 Comments

A couple dozen of us took a tour of Birmingham High School, aka Seaholm High, during our reunion weekend in October. It looks like quite of few additions have been made to the building. I thought the designers did quite a good job of being faithful to the Fifties architecture.

A Case of the Human Condition: Some Scenes from Birmingham, Michigan, Today

November 17, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall Leave a Comment

A Case of the Human Condition: It’s Us — The Class of ’59

November 16, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall Leave a Comment

We just keep getting better and better — and less and less like a bunch of adolescents. The class of 1959, Birmingham High School, Birmingham, Michigan, stopped talking long enough to let me take some pictures — October, 2009.

High School Revisited: The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same — Only Different

November 16, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall 2 Comments

Seaholm High School Birmingham Michigan exterior. photo by BF Newhall

My old high school, deep in flyover country, has moved into the 21st century: The girls room is now the women’s room and the library the media room. Read more.

A Case of the Human Condition: I’ve Got a Dirty Little Secret — I (Still) Can’t Say No to Toys

November 2, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall 3 Comments

ewok hut toy about 16 inches tall with ewok characters. Photo by BF Newhall

Some people can’t resist chocolate. For others, it’s clothes. Some folks, oddly enough, will spend $110,000 on a Ferrari with no back seat and hardly any trunk. Imagine that . . . For me as the mother of young children, toys were my weakness. Read more.

A Case of the Human Condition: Help Us Choose Our Christmas Card Photo

October 30, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall 3 Comments

We have a slew of family photos we could put on our Christmas card this year. Help us decide which one. Vote for your favorite.

A Case of the Human Condition: You Can’t Go Home Again . . . Oh, But You Can

October 23, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall 2 Comments

It turns out that, yes, you can go home again. If you’re me, that is. All I had to do was show up for my high school class reunion and there I was, back in Birmingham, Michigan.

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Tudor Bungalows in the Twin Cities—Little Houses With a Big Sense of Humor

tudor roof with round arch above the window in Minneapolis. Photo by Barbara Newhall

Can a house have a sense of humor? I never gave it thought until I visited Minneapolis and was treated to street after street of droll Tudor bungalows. Read more.

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