My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

  The mid wife looked up at me from where my newborn child lay and asked, “Do you want to cut the cord?” It was a special moment in the livi...

Today is the anniversary of the transcendence into the immortal spiritual realm of my oldest daughter. It was July 5, 1999, when Naomi, then...

I take solace in the little garden Amy and I have in our front yard. The plants need care each day to establish themselves. The soil is poor...

The bookmaking art is very satisfying. With industry tools at hand today, I find the process sometimes breathtaking.   My fi...

Last weekend was the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz , the notorious German concentration camp in Poland where  in...

Fractured is a theme I can relate to, having experienced much personal trauma and fissure in life.  That's ok, I believe what...

Her words touched me and opened floodgates of memories. Profound recollections from July 5, 1999 and the three days immediately follow...

  “This world is so full of opportunities that one can hardly keep up with them all. Life is so beautiful; I cherish it and want to be ...

The nineteenth anniversary of the death of my nineteen year old daughter Naomi is nearing—July 5, 2018. After she died I thought of t...

"Man's fate is according to his pains." -Robert Herrick, ( English, 24 August 1591 – 15 October 1674 ) Is fasting like w...

Steven's writing After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. —Jean Cocteau ( French: 5 July...

I am surrounded by spirits, and that is the feeling of the Lord.   —Naomi Boone I love this simple sentence written in my daughter's ...