Articles
Barbara has been a columnist, contributing editor, and author of more than four hundred articles, of which this is a partial listing.
Profiles have been written about Barbara in the Times, USA Today, People Magazine and Hartford Courant.
The New York Times “Hers” Columns:
“Infidelity”
“The Bag Lady”
“What Happened to Cynthia Koestler?”
“No Girls Allowed”
“The Obdurate Attender”
“Middle Age: Becoming the Person You Always Were”
“On Danger”
“On Mystery”
“On Parenting and Consequence”
“The Death of a Dog”
“Letting Go”
“On Pain”
“A Brother’s Death,” The New York Times Sunday Magazine
“In Rome Where those Matchless Poets Lie,” The New York Times Book Review
“Grit Beneath the Glitter,” The New York Times Sunday City Section
The New York Times Home Section:
“On the Road with the College Applicant”
“Summer Solitude”
“If A Bomb is Dropped on Pomfret, Your Desks Will Save You,” Newsday Editorial
Elle Magazine Ethics Column:
“On Compassion”
“On Trust”
“Gossip”
The New York Times Sophisticated Traveler (regular contributor for 20 years):
“In Idaho, White Water and White Knuckles”
“Patagonia in Second Gear”
“Death Valley: Present at the Creation”
“Winter Dreams: New York City”
“Second Sightings: Eight Wish Lists: Venice”
“Madrid”
“Milan Beyond Chic”
“In Lapland, the Sound of Snow on Snow”
“Open Doors in Carriacou”
“The Spells of a Bright Bequia Morning”
The New York Times Travel Section (regular contributor for 20 years):
“A Calm in the Minnesota Wilds”
“The Healing Power of the Mexican Jungle”
“When Travel Serves to Comfort”
“A Shrine to Arts and Crafts”
“Bruges in the Silent Hours”
“Williamstown”
“Avoiding Romeo and Juliet”
“Breaking Bread with the Stars”
“A Frosty Trek Through Domburg”
“Catching the Spirit of a Place”
“Going Away, Going Home”
“The Passionate Gelateria”
“Off the Tourist Track”
“An Old World the Mississippi Left Behind”
“Sailing Days”
“A Visit with Eudora Welty,” Yale Review
“Christo’s Gates,” The Financial Times
“Groundswell,” The Financial Times
National Geographic Traveler:
“Blues Traveler”
“The Exit off 91”
“Rocky Mountain High”
“The Place Nobody Knows”
“Montreal Swing”
“The Mystery of Exit 69”
Washington Post Book World Reviews:
“A Mother Only a Mother Can Love”
“Learning to Say Goodbye”
“The Power and Poetry of Love and Evil…”
“Intensive Caring”
“Istanbul,” Boston Globe
Town and Country:
“A Quiet Venice”
“A Widow’s First Five Years”
“Life Among the Self-Centered”
“Hera in the Workplace,” Vogue
“Patchwork Pilgrimage,” Gourmet
“Hope on the Range,” AARP
“How to Launch a New Life,” O at Home
“Grief is Universal; That Doesn't Make it Less Isolating,” Time Magazine