My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

All it takes is one look to cause brief delirium. I am talking about tulips, and the effect they have on an innocent eye. Okay, maybe I am t...

I have come to believe that I have a mystical relationship with the number eleven. By this I mean that it is not coincidental that this n...

Now I have posted 260 blogs! These are my best writings from April , going back to 2007: BELOVED, April 17, 2010 Sometimes the cruelt...

In most cases, people see art and respond to the surface, but only briefly. They may even own art, but see it as decoration. Especially, fo...

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...