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Barbara Falconer Newhall

My First Royalty Check Has Arrived — How Cool Is That?

November 5, 2015 By Barbara Falconer Newhall 9 Comments

Barbara Falconer Newhall's book "Wrestling with God" is on display on a counter in A Great Good Place for Books bookstore in Oakland California. Photo by Barbara Newha

Hey! Hey! My very first royalty check has arrived. It’s not big bucks, but it’s real. Read more.

Isaiah and the Of-Courseness of God

November 3, 2015 By Barbara Falconer Newhall 2 Comments

the of-courseness of god. Beach grass at sunset on Lake Michigan's eastern coast. Photo by Barbara Newhall Barbara Falconer Newhall travels up and down Michigan's lower peninsula, visiting friends and family and putting on book events for "Wrestling with God."

Something is going on out there. Of course it is. It’s common sense. How else could things be, says Isaiah.  Read more.

The Center of the Universe Lives at Our House

October 29, 2015 By Barbara Falconer Newhall 6 Comments

A newborn baby, a few weeks old, is held by his adoring parents. Barbara Newhall Photo

Children run the world. And everyone who’s ever had a kid knows it. Read more.

Our No TV Week — The Kids Survived, but Did I?

October 22, 2015 By Barbara Falconer Newhall 2 Comments

girl on tricyclle with helmet. Photo by Barbara Newhall

What would happen, I wondered, if our family had no TV for a week. Who would complain the most? Read more.

The Day Our Son Didn’t Drown — Family Stories

October 15, 2015 By Barbara Falconer Newhall 2 Comments

Two children play on the steps of a condominium pool in Miami Beach in 1985 with Atlantic in the background. Photo by Barbara Newhall

Family stories: Four-year-old Peter’s body was limp. His eyes stared blankly into the Florida sky. We’d been swimming in a pool designed for adults. Read more.

Jack Shoemaker of Counterpoint Press Shares Fifty Years of Book Publishing Wisdom

October 8, 2015 By Barbara Falconer Newhall Leave a Comment

Jack Shoemaker of Counterpoint Press spoke at the Oct. 5 meeting of Left Coast Writers.

Jack Shoemaker of Counterpoint Press shared 50 years of publishing wisdom at a meeting of the Left Coast Writers at Book Passage in Marin County. Read more.

The First Presbyterian Church of Birmingham, Michigan — Last Stop on My One-Woman Road Trip

October 2, 2015 By Barbara Falconer Newhall 6 Comments

Facade of the First Presbyterian Church of Birmingham, Michigan. Photo by Barbara Newhall

I’d sung in the choir and been confirmed at the First Presbyterian Church of Birmingham. And now I was invited to read from “Wrestling with God.” Read more.

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Was I a Tradwife in the 1980s? Or a Liberated Woman in Progress?

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Was I a tradwife back in the 1980s?  Or was I a second-wave feminist still figuring out how to make the marriage-family-career thing work?  Read more.

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A photo taken probably 1962, when Barbara returned from summer in Europe with souvenirs for family. Barbara Newhall photo

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