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Author: Barbara Falconer Newhall

A Pollinator Garden: Putting In Flowers and Hoping for the Birds, the Bees and the Beetles

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I want flowers. I want a pollinator garden. I want the crazy daisies, the seaside fleabane, the irises — and the birds and the bugs.  Read more.

The Abortion Wars: Forcing a Woman to Continue a Pregnancy Is a Form of Assault

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Requiring a woman to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term is an assault on her agency as a person. It’s also literally an assault on her body.  Read more.

Widowed: A Love Letter From Jon Arrived This Week

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I’m widowed and a love letter from Jon, my husband, arrived this week — in the form of the house we bought and built together.  Read more.

Comedian Robert Morse – Dead at 90. Very Much Alive at 36

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The last time I saw comedian Robert Morse he was a young guy, a fireball. It was 1967 and he was working the crowd on the set of a TV show.  Read more.

Pete Holmes, Stephen Colbert (and God) on Life and Death

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At Easter Christians celebrate Jesus’s resurrection — Jesus was dead, and then he wasn’t. Was Jon dead, and then not?  Read more.

Am I Too Old to Lose That Weight? My Doctor Says I Am

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Is my doctor giving up on me now that I’ve turned 80? Does he think I don’t have many good years left — and I’m too old to lose that weight?  Read more.

Zelensky’s TV Show — What ‘Servant of the People’ Says About Ukraine

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Volodymyr Zelensky’s TV show — a comedy — explains a lot. Like why the Ukrainian people did not roll over and play dead for Putin. Read more.

The Truth About Widows — We Cry a Lot

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We widows cry a lot. But sometime I stop and ask myself, why am I crying? Am I mourning his life — or mine?  Read more.

Widowed, I Celebrated His Birthday With Cupcakes

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Widowed, I celebrated his birthday without him — with two birthday cupcakes, one for him and one for me. Because there were still two of us.  Read more.

Beware. The Decluttering Craze Could Leave You Holding the Designer Handbag.

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Everybody’s decluttering, including my friends and family, and sometimes other people’s unwanted stuff ends up on my doorstep.  Read more.

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