My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

When at last I closed my eyes to sleep at 5AM, my last thoughts were not about the spectacular samba parade I had witnessed through the n...

Since setting foot in Brazil, capricious winds have jostled my fortunes. First, after 1 night in Sao Paolo, I returned to the airport for a...

My mother’s walking has slowed, but not her reading. For as long as I can remember, she has read at least five books a week, and I notice th...

"It is better to be in chains with friends, than to be in a garden with strangers." 
-Persian Proverb My artist friend Ken Chri...

“An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.” ~Spanish Proverb The last several years I have been single and living alone, ...

Now that I am traveling again, the world speaks to me in new ways, and I listen. My parents have provided me a room, but it is barely large ...

“You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - a...

I have chosen to make the matrix of existence my true home, and flux my companion. For most people this is not possible or even desired. Whe...

Consciousness is a gift given to each human. We could never plan something so complex, nor, given our limitations, would we want to try. Loo...

My mother has begun entreating me not to travel in South America because of “murders”. But then, my mother has barely ventured past her back...

What is it like, to live in a DREAM? It is to realize ephemerality— the fleeting moments in eternity. Whatever it is that we think we know i...