Barbara Chen 6/5/24 Barbara Chen 6/5/24

Fast takes forever

How does something that moves so fast also seem to take forever? On childhood and motherhood in tenderest time

Barbara Chen 3/17/24 Barbara Chen 3/17/24

Baths and Cupcakes

Make your own reservations, buy your own cupcakes, even cancel your own plans — so long as you know the difference between “self-absorbed” and self care.

Barbara Chen 7/11/21 Barbara Chen 7/11/21

Blue

Because of Blue, I know the indomitable charging, delirious affection and pure might and heart of healthy and recovering pit bulls.

Barbara Chen 3/8/21 Barbara Chen 3/8/21

International Women

We are like the sea, infinite, choppy, and deep with story, lost, buoyant, rising to meet the sky and crawling to the shore —

Barbara Chen 3/6/21 Barbara Chen 3/6/21

Another Year

I guess we’ll know better then.

Barbara Chen 1/30/20 Barbara Chen 1/30/20

Mixed Mourning

The 2003 allegation grips the rim of my memory, a flagrant technical foul I can’t underwrite.

Barbara Chen 6/9/19 Barbara Chen 6/9/19

First Hug

If you can’t hug your own father before a cross-country flight when you’re hungover and almost 30, when can you?