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

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Barbara’s Riffs on Life

Widowed. I’m Fine Until It’s Time to Go Home

June 18, 2022 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

widowed I'm fine until it's time to go home

A day-long hike at Pt. Reyes keeps my mind off the fact that I’m widowed — and I’m fine until it’s time to go home.  Read more.

When Your Friends Read Your Blog — And the Warriors Win It!

June 17, 2022 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

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The trouble with keeping a blog that your friends read is — your friends read your blog. And then they invite you over to watch the game with them.  Read more.

Gun Rights — Who Owns the Second Amendment?

June 11, 2022 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Mourners-at-Uvalde who owns the second amendment?

Who owns the Second Amendment? The Americans who own guns? Or the people who sell them?  Read more.

Jon Was a Sports Fan. Am I?

June 4, 2022 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

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Jon loved sports. I didn’t. But I did love Jon, and he was a sports fan, so I followed his teams. Now that he’s gone, am I still a sports fan? Read more.

Did Covid Kill My Husband? Was He ‘Collateral Damage’ of the Pandemic?

May 28, 2022 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

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Covid-19 has killed 1,000,000 Americans. How many additional, collateral casualties were there? Was Jon one of them? Did Covid kill my husband?  Read more.

There’s a Pollinator in My Pollinator Garden

May 21, 2022 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

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The columbine, the statice and the armeria had been planted only a week earlier, but already there was a pollinator in my pollinator garden.  Read more.

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Xi’An to TX and Mao to LBJ — I’ve Been Traveling and I’m Back

Writer Barbara Falconer Newhall poses with a mock-up of Pope Francis at the Religion Newswriters Association conference in Austtin, 2013. RNA photo

China, Austin, a Religion Newswriters conference — I had a great, traveling September. It started with on my birthday on September 6, which lasted only a few hours because Jon and I were on a plane to Shanghai when somewhere over the Pacific we hit the International Date Line. Read more.

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Cover of the book "The Abundance" by Annie Dillard. Photo by Barbara Newhall

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