My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

Early in life, I always pictured places in my mind’s eye by the images I gathered from books; especially art history books. New York I ass...

If sometimes the streets of the world are hell, I have found heaven on a mountain in Haifa, Israel. Being on the grounds of the Bahá’í wo...

To travel in an unfolding dream is to live every moment within mystery. Egypt is mysterious and inscrutable as the hieroglyphics inscribed i...

THE DREAM is giving me what I want and more. Here in Luxor, along the Nile River, where the Egyptians built vast temples and tombs 7000 ye...

The news from the Middle East has been mostly violent for many years, so I built up some trepidation about visiting. I pictured myself getti...

Fragments from THE DREAM: I am on Tobacco Key, a tiny Belize reef island, 45 minutes boat ride from Dangriga. I have come to snorkel in the ...

I am growing accustomed to the ceaseless sound of the wind and waves on the beach outside my room. One morning it was quiet when I awoke, an...

This world is alive with visible and invisible forces that constantly play together. Imperceptible tides cause the sea to rise and fall, whi...

The journey has begun and I am in a slight state of shock. It took more than a month to disburse of my former life. There were moments of gr...

To live without fear is to really live. What are our biggest fears? The biggest for most people is death. Like other animals, we run from de...

I am in the homestretch now. Only two weeks until I begin living without an address. Today I had a sale of my household and personal belong...