My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

It took me sixty years before I experienced being thrown out on the street. Thank God, I can laugh about it. My wife owns a home in White...

My ritual of writing a blog every week has resulted in 350 posts to date. Once the cadence established itself, remarkably it took on a li...

“All Heaven and Earth Flowered white obliterate... Snow...unceasing snow” ― Hashin, Japanese Haiku: Two Hundred Twenty Examples of Sev...

Laocoön and His Sons, Greek marble sculpture, 25 BC David , by Michaelangelo, Italy, 1501-1504 "Naked came I out of my mother...

Celebrating the festival of Diwali, Varanasi, India Have you ever gone to a movie and been the only one in the theater? The lights dim ...

At the temple of Karnak, Luxor, Egypt Today’s blog is number 347. That is about 6 ½ years of writing. In the beginning, I wrote to brin...

"Old Adobe Wall" oil on canvas, 12 x 16 inches,  1986 I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. Vincent Van Gogh (Dutc...

I am with Sarah when she was about 1 year Both of my children, Naomi and Sarah, were born at home, but to different mothers. My eyes we...

"Quantum Of Solace" Kolkatta, India Here is a word that is not often used but ubiquitously seen: juxtapose . It means to plac...

"Little Church At Ojo Caliente" oil on linen, 9 x 12 inches “I wonder how long this water has been pouring out of the ground ...

I believe experience is the true currency. And among experiences, the practice of virtue is of the highest value. Money cannot hold memor...