My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

During my marriage, we had a wonderful cat named Misha.  At the time Misha arrived at our house, our other pets were two Australian Shepherd...

One day, while on African safari in Tanzania, we had been on a grueling, bone-rattling, and dusty journey over the Serengeti Plain , and our...

Lately, I have been pondering the nature of prejudice. Here in the USA, we immediately think of racial bias. But prejudice comes in many sha...

“Have you thought of writing a memoir?” Several people who have watched my life unfold have asked this question. There is plenty to write ab...

Yesterday I walked with a friend to a place where many suicides have occurred. It is near the rough and tumble old west town of Taos , at th...

A problem with new ideas is that they may be rejected by society. There are many examples of this in the arts when an artist is inspired to ...

The place of your birth will always have special meaning as your entrance spot into this world. Furthermore, the elements that formed your ...

 A human being is woven of many threads. Each thread is given at birth and has come from afar, through generations, to arrive in the special...

Does the moon follow you when you walk outside at night? It depends on what you believe. If you imagine so, and push that imagination into t...

Ah, to be innocent and full of wonder. Here are two quotes that can help us be free of prejudice: “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as...

Sometimes the cruelty of this world is dumbfounding and so insulting to our senses that we recoil immediately and simply withdraw. I remembe...