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Barbara Falconer Newhall

Found: Big Bucks in My Sock Drawer. Lost: My Mother

October 5, 2011 By Barbara Falconer Newhall 2 Comments

Tinka Falconer's gravesite. It's not lost. Photo by Barbara Falconer Newhall

I just found four brand new hundred-dollar bills in my sock drawer. Where in the world did that money come from? Read more.

Book Openers: Why Are All Those Catholics – So Darned Catholic?

October 4, 2011 By Barbara Falconer Newhall 2 Comments

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What is at the heart of Catholicism? What makes all those Catholics so tenaciously Catholic? The Rev. Robert Barron would say – the Incarnation. Read more.

Book Openers: Forgiveness Is Tough — Atonement, Even Tougher

October 3, 2011 By Barbara Falconer Newhall 2 Comments

Beyond Forgiveness book jacket. author phil cousineau

TV host Phil Cousineau looks at the flip side of forgiveness — atonement — in his new book “Beyond Forgiveness.” Read more.

Book Openers: Meet the Polygamist Family That Inspired TV’s “Big Love”

September 20, 2011 By Barbara Falconer Newhall 7 Comments

Inspired Big Love: Alina, Vicki and Valerie with husband Joe Darger at the 2011 RNA conference.

I got a close-up look at the polygamous Darger family, three wives, one husband, who inspired the TV series “Big Love.” Read more.

Book Openers: Robert Bellah on Religion and Evolution

September 12, 2011 By Barbara Falconer Newhall Leave a Comment

Sociologist Robert Bellah on Religion and Human Evolution

Tinka Falconer: Her Ninety-Three Years

July 8, 2011 By Barbara Falconer Newhall 4 Comments

Here’s an obituary for my mother, Tinka Falconer, who died in December. Read more.

The Writing Room: My Book’s Almost Done, Sorta

April 9, 2011 By Barbara Falconer Newhall 4 Comments

[caption id="attachment_4618" align="aligncenter" width="450"]My computer monitor in action. Photo by Bf Newhall My computer monitor the day before my mother broke her hip and brought progress on my book to a halt for a year. Photo by Barbara Newhall[/caption]

My book is close to done. I’ve been working on it for nigh on to 13 years now. Can’t imagine what it will feel like to have it done-ish. Read more.

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I checked in on Jon the other day and I found him right where we’d buried him. He was pushing up a daisy. Just one.  Read more.

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