Barbara Falconer Newhall
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Riffs on life from a veteran journalist Barbara Falconer Newhall.
Barbara Falconer Newhall
5d ago
I was in the right place at the right time for the 2017 solar eclipse because my husband, Jon Newhall, knew how to show a girl a good time. Read more.
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Barbara Falconer Newhall
1w ago
When I spotted a pair of red Mary Janes at the Easter Vigil, my meditations flitted from shopping to death and resurrection and back to shopping. Read more.
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Barbara Falconer Newhall
2w ago
The old plum tree lying on its side was a messy scramble of black and useless branches. But it was not dead yet. Read more.
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Barbara Falconer Newhall
3w ago
I checked in on Jon the other day and I found him right where we'd buried him. He was pushing up a daisy. Just one. Read more.
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Barbara Falconer Newhall
1M ago
The one good thing about grief is -- there's not a darned thing you can do about it. Someone has died, and that's that. Read more.
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Barbara Falconer Newhall
1M ago
Widowed: Jon and I had been dating for several years. No marriage proposal was coming my way. But a Leap Day was. Read more.
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Barbara Falconer Newhall
1M ago
Where is Jon? I've been widowed three years and I'm still expecting him to come back. It's not possible that he is gone for good, snuffed out. Read more.
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Barbara Falconer Newhall
2M ago
I feel the sharpest grief when I picture my husband alive and wanting something, planning something -- picking out artichokes for dinner, making a grandchild laugh. Read more.
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Barbara Falconer Newhall
2M ago
I'm older and kinder now, but not because I'm a virtuous goody-good. It's my irresponsible id, my reptilian brain, that wants to be kind. Read more.
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Barbara Falconer Newhall
2M ago
Bedford Gallery's "California Clay" show, where ceramic art forgets to look like art and chooses instead to ooze, glisten, drip and writhe. Read more.
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