My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

Of all animals, only human beings can be absurd. Other animals can act playfully, but not go beyond that into absurdity. Absurdity is the ...

This is the last day of my annual period of fasting . The discipline requires that I give up food and water between sunrise and sunset fr...

Do you ever ponder infinity, or do you just think, why bother, it is impossible to comprehend. Human beings like to measure. They create uni...

What is the essence of love? It must be attraction, a desire to mingle and share with another. If that does not exist, then love does not. ...

“Oh God, protect that child .” I said this to myself as I left a coffee shop I frequent. It is a friendly place and serves coffee that is r...

"The poet is a madman lost in adventure." Paul Verlaine Invariably, lunatics are on some grand adventure or another, and the tra...

What we know with our mind is but a drop in the ocean, for vast realms exist outside our experience. We struggle to understand ourselves, an...

Whenever I hear the term “people of color”, there is a deafening silence that ensues. The silence is my own, since I object so much to the t...

The cold days of winter have wrapped their icy fingers around me. To step outside is to shiver against the elements. My girlfriend, Heidi of...

What is a muse? Muse in Greek mythology, is one of the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, goddess of memory. Muses inspired and presided...

"Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?" Friedrich Nietzsche “There is no end. There is no beginning. T...