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

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Widowed

Jon died unexpectedly at the age of 79. I thought we'd have many more years together. We won't.

Widowed: Lucky Me, I Told Jon Newhall I Loved Him

March 13, 2021 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Jon Newhall makes dinner at the Newhall house. Photo by Barbara Newhall

Lucky me. I told my husband I loved him while he was still alive. Read more.

Jonathan Newhall. My Husband of Forty-Four Years

February 27, 2021 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

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Friends and readers. I am so sad to report that my dear husband of 44 years, Jonathan Newhall, died last week. Here is his obituary. Read more.

What’s Rhetoric? Let My Two-Year-Old Enlighten You

May 25, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

My daughter Christina discovered the art of rhetoric when she was being weaned from baby bottle to plastic cup. She’d say, “I want milk and I don’t want it in a cup” — an elegant illocutionary statement that usually got her what she wanted, her bottle.

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The Somethingists — They Don’t Believe in God, but They Do Believe in . . . Something

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Good news for those of us – count me in – who aren’t at all sure of what God is like. It’s called Somethingism. Read more.

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