My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

My two cousins in Dallas, Texas cut people open and chop out bones. They are orthopedic surgeons. I could learn to be a doctor and p...

A big wind knocked over a panel of sheetrock in my backyard. It struck a jade plant I had placed outdoors for the summer months. The...

Hardships can make us stronger. I do not have complete evidence of this, but believe that every situation has some good in it.   ...

The little room with yellow walls barely contained me. From its tiny balcony on the second floor I looked out over a field to a city...

  At 86 years old, Polly's energy arrived in short bursts and then would fly away like a bird that longed to break free from an...

Political Hangups oil on linen, 18 x 24 inches It all started with a bizarre thought that came to my mind many years ago in 1993. ...

A girl paddling on Lake Dal, Kashmir, India During my daughter Naomi's eighteenth year, death was encroaching upon her so forc...

I see on the news so much destruction in the world. How odd it is people can't be friendly! These conflicts occur at every l...

Deep within the vault of my memories, full now with six decades of life, is an episode of rapturous wonder, thrill, and happy con...

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost The...

Since arriving back in the United States in February, brought home by the unexpected death of my mother, I have been unusually subdu...