• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • HOME
  • ABOUT
  • BLOG
  • WRESTLING WITH GOD BOOK
  • CONTACT

Barbara Falconer Newhall

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

  • A CASE OF THE HUMAN CONDITION
  • MY EVER-CHANGING FAMILY
  • WRITING & READING
  • MY ROCKY SPIRITUAL JOURNEY
  • WIDOWED
  • FUNNY BUTTON

Barbara’s Riffs on Life

Why I Write About the Small Stuff — Like the Kettle Corn That Showed Up in Our Food Order. Sheltering in Place Week 4

April 5, 2020 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

kettle-corn

A bag of kettle corn? How did that get into our on-line food order? Provisioning mishaps have provided comic relief to the coronavirus anxiety at our house. Read more.

Twenty Seconds: What’s Good for the Hands Is Good for the Potatoes. Right? Sheltering at Home Week 3

April 3, 2020 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

washing-potatoes-for-twenty-seconds

COVID-19 is out there. It could get me, which is why I’m doing a lot of weird stuff lately. Like soaping down the potatoes. For twenty seconds, of course. Read more.

It’s Time to Forget the Coronavirus for a Few Hours a Day — And Find Some Normalcy. Sheltering in Place Day 12

March 29, 2020 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

donald-trump-forget-the-coronavirus-and-donald-trump

Sheltering at Home Day 12. It’s time to forget the coronavirus for a few hours a day — try to — and get back to work on my next book. Read more.

Will Donald Trump Be the Death of Me? Pardon My Rant as I Shelter in Place — and Wind Up Praying for the President. Day 11

March 28, 2020 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

will donald trump be the death of me?

Dying is bad enough. It’s another thing to contemplate dying because Donald Trump is in the White House. Read more.

Day 10 Sheltering at Home — No Furnace, No Heat

March 27, 2020 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

no furnace, no heat. our 31-year-old-Day-and-Night-furnace quit on us today

No furnace, no heat. Last month as COVID-19 bore down on California, our 70-year-old sewer line gave out. Today, our 31-year-old furnace followed suit. Read more.

Sheltering at Home Day 9: I’m Going for the Small — Really Small — Pleasures.

March 26, 2020 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Small-Pleasures-new-barn-lights-two-sizes

There are small pleasures to be had while sheltering in place. OK, they’re really, really small. But I’m making the most of them. Read more.

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 53
  • Page 54
  • Page 55
  • Page 56
  • Page 57
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 142
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

GET MY Riffs on Life BY EMAIL

True stories often told through a humorous lens–because you just can't make them up!

We respect your privacy and do not share your email with anyone.

 

LET’S CONNECT

ON THE FUNNY SIDE

Wedding Wear: The Aunt Wore Black

red eileen fisher dress with shirt. . looking for a dress for niece's wedding. nordstrom. Eileen Fisher $248 for the shirt and $378 for the dress

This wedding called for a festive evening dress with panache and color and sparkle. And skin. Lots of it. Arms. Legs. And, what the heck, décolletage. Read more.

MORE "ON THE FUNNY SIDE"

CATEGORIES

  • A Case of the Human Condition
  • My Ever-Changing Family
  • On Writing & Reading
  • My Rocky Spiritual Journey

 
Need some levity? Push my Funny Button!

TO MY READERS

Please feel free to share links to my posts with one and all and to quote briefly from them in your own writing, remembering, of course, to attribute the quote to me and to provide a link back to this site.

My Oakland Tribune columns, btw, are reprinted by permission of the Trib. With the exception of review copies of books, I do not accept ads or freebies of any kind. Click on the "Contact" button if you have questions. Enjoy!

 

DON’T MISS!

Man in his 30s lifts dumbells while semi reclined on bench. Photo by Barbara Newhall

Weight Lifting Can Kill You — Shall I Email the News to My Weight-Lifting Son?

anne lamott at montclair presbyterian church november 2012. photo by bf newhall

Good Books I Haven’t Really Read: Anna Quindlen, Stephen Prothero, David Talbot and a Book About French Love . . .

lumberjack-in-tree

Buzz Saw Bliss — Sheltering at Home Day 3

Bride in violet and cerise sari with guest in fuchsia sari at a wedding in San Francisco Bay Area. Photo by BF Newhall

When the Bride Doesn’t Wear White — And Neither Does Anyone Else

MORE DON'T MISS!

© 2009–2026 Barbara Falconer Newhall All rights reserved. · Log in