It had been years since I last typed a story on my dear old manual typewriter. Its platen was cracked, its keys tangled. Time to say good-bye. Read more.
Barbara’s Riffs on Life
When My Mother Was the Grandma

Veteran journalist Barbara Falconer Newhall riffs on life as she knows it.
I’m playing hooky from my blog today. So this is not a blog post. This is me complaining — again — about my consarned to-do list. Read more.
We’re not immortal after all. When we were twenty, we thought we were, which meant some of us did things like hop a freight train to Los Angeles. Read more.
Sometime between the pandemic and my husband’s death I began dumping out the contents of my travel bucket list. Read more.
Now and then I come across a photo that brings my husband back to life, and for one sweet moment, Jon is there in all his ineffable Jon-ness. Read more.