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

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Barbara Falconer Newhall

A Pollinator Garden: Putting In Flowers and Hoping for the Birds, the Bees and the Beetles

May 14, 2022 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

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I want flowers. I want a pollinator garden. I want the crazy daisies, the seaside fleabane, the irises — and the birds and the bugs.  Read more.

The Abortion Wars: Forcing a Woman to Continue a Pregnancy Is a Form of Assault

May 7, 2022 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

the-abortion-wars pregnant-woman

Requiring a woman to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term is an assault on her agency as a person. It’s also literally an assault on her body.  Read more.

Widowed: A Love Letter From Jon Arrived This Week

April 30, 2022 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

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I’m widowed and a love letter from Jon, my husband, arrived this week — in the form of the house we bought and built together.  Read more.

Comedian Robert Morse – Dead at 90. Very Much Alive at 36

April 23, 2022 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

comedian robert morse in a Clip from Man Men TV show showing Robert Morse singing and dancing with secretaries.

The last time I saw comedian Robert Morse he was a young guy, a fireball. It was 1967 and he was working the crowd on the set of a TV show.  Read more.

Pete Holmes, Stephen Colbert (and God) on Life and Death

April 16, 2022 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Pete Holmes, Stephen Colbert -- and God. A memorial-candle-on-the-altar

At Easter Christians celebrate Jesus’s resurrection — Jesus was dead, and then he wasn’t. Was Jon dead, and then not?  Read more.

Am I Too Old to Lose That Weight? My Doctor Says I Am

April 9, 2022 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

 too old to lose that weight? using-the-bathroom-scale

Is my doctor giving up on me now that I’ve turned 80? Does he think I don’t have many good years left — and I’m too old to lose that weight?  Read more.

Zelensky’s TV Show — What ‘Servant of the People’ Says About Ukraine

April 2, 2022 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

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Volodymyr Zelensky’s TV show — a comedy — explains a lot. Like why the Ukrainian people did not roll over and play dead for Putin. Read more.

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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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Rich, meticulous design from Josephine Glassworks, Silesia, circa 1898-1905. Photo by Barbara Newhal

Cheap Thrills at the Glasmuseum Passau — Outrageous, Over-the-Top Decorative Glass.

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Widowed: I’ve Been Writing a Memoir in Essays All This Time

Glacial erratics at inyo national forest. photo by bf newhall

Buddhist Writing — Wisdom or Chicken Shit?

TThe Bay Area Book Festival Berkeley, California. Rob Bell signed copies of his "How to Be Here." and talked about "shall I write another book?" Photo by Barbara Newhall

Write Another Book? I Dunno . . .

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