My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” This is something a madman might say, or, maybe an artist. Actually, Pablo Picasso,...

I imagine I know what a prisoner feels like when he is released from confinement and walks out into the big, bright planet as a free person....

Fasting is a voluntary contraction of life that animals seldom do unless they are sick. If an animal is sick, not only does it fast, but als...

From March 2 – 20 is a time of fasting for the worldwide Baha’i community. Imagine living without water or food for nineteen days. Well, a...

Last week, I wrote of my perceptions returning to the United States after a year of travel, of my sale of objects that I brought back with m...

A shift has occurred in the year since I have been away from the United States. When I left, I sensed an unrest and dissatisfaction leading ...

People ask if I am having difficulty adjusting to “being back.” Not really, except that for the past year I did not live anywhere longer tha...

My trip around the world has broadened my inner sphere and given me more confidence than ever. It seems a bigger picture has developed and l...

I am two days late writing my blog . . . and this after uploading faithfully each weekend for 50 weeks traveling around the world. I blame ...

When the airplane carrying me from Phoenix to Albuquerque touched down, I felt a familiar delight course through my veins. New Mexico is ca...

Now that I returned to the United States after fifty weeks of travel, I do not feel as if I reached a goal or have landed safely home but ra...