A Case of the Human Condition

I’m Barbara Falconer Newhall and I’ve got an incurable Case of the Human Condition. And since you do too, I’m counting on you to laugh and cry along with me as I riff on life as we know it . . . Below you'll read about my creaky, old fifties house, my forays into home gardening, my shopping stories, my spectacularly low-fashion wardrobe -- and more.

Armistead Maupin’s Untold Tales — A Big Critical Success

November 4, 2017 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Armistead Maupin hits the top of the charts again as Jennifer Kroot’s documentary “The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin” proves a critics favorite. Read more.

Whose Second Amendment Is It? The Gun Lobby’s? Or Gun Owners’?

October 29, 2017 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

I’d like to shut my mouth for a minute and give gun owners a chance to take responsibility for how the Second Amendment they cherish is implemented. Read more.

Gun Safety — I’m Giving Up on the Cause. Here’s Why

October 14, 2017 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

I give up. I’m not going to get on my soap box and plead for better gun safety laws any more. It’s up to gun advocates to get that job done..Read more.

I Was a Culturally Deprived Kid: My Teachers Never Told Me About the Ojibwe Poet Jane Johnston Schoolcraft

September 14, 2017 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

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Culturally deprived because though I loved this Michigan woodland, I was never introduced as a child to the poetry of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, who celebrated Michigan's nature. Photo by Barbara Newhall

We shared a love of the Michigan woods — pine, oak and birch. Photo by Barbara Newhall[/caption]

This Ojibwe poet would have been dear to my girlish Michigan heart. Why didn’t my Detroit schoolteachers ever mention her? Was I culturally deprived? Read more.