My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

This last week, I flew to Chicago , the place of my birth. My daughter Sarah is finishing her studies in dance at Columbia College, and as p...

I have made a movie. The name “movie” implies movement, and nowadays action movies are packed with so much movement and sound that they can ...

Human beings are by design, philosophers . . . and I dare say, the more intelligent a person is, the more philosophical. Philosophy is the s...

We are all travelers. All is in motion, even when appearing to be at rest. Time is always moving and everything is related to time, so ever...

“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...