My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

Since October 2006, my blog, My Fairytale Life, has been a space where I’ve shared 797 episodes of my journey through art, life, and love. O...

Inspiration for painting art is as broad as the universe. Subjects are endless. Some artists choose to have no subject at all, but let color...

Working with the earth has always been a love of mine. It is my connection to nature that is strong. When I graduated art college and could ...

  I more clearly see an ending to this journey, with each day bringing me closer to a final scene. I want whatever time is left to be meanin...

Stop signs have frustrated me in life. I get up to speed making real progress going to a destination, when suddenly the sign looms ahead; or...

Hawaii is about 2,300 miles at a distance now but just a heartbeat away in our mind and heart. This is what experiences do when th...

  Amy gave me a special potion and offhandedly said, “This will give you sweet dreams.” It is YIang Ylang and comes from flowers that g...

  During my youth I daydreamed and used imagination to make simple pencil drawings. I often drew a road beginning under my feet extendi...

  At 86 years old, Polly's energy arrived in short bursts and then would fly away like a bird that longed to break free from an...

A girl paddling on Lake Dal, Kashmir, India During my daughter Naomi's eighteenth year, death was encroaching upon her so forc...

Backyard of my parents former home, Santa Barbara, California There is so much that I want to give you. You know Steven, when you...

I magination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. ...

Life cannot be held, only experienced. To try and hold it is when we realize it is but a dream. When we believe we are in possession of...

Me, in Venice, 2007 Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even not...

There is a beach on Kauai that is my favorite swimming spot in the world. It is Lumahei beach—the same cove where the famous movie South...

“A man’s house is his castle.” ~ James Otis, Jr. (February 5, 1725 – May 23, 1783) This famous saying seems to mean that every man is king ...