My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

  A thunderbolt woke me with a start at three AM. I had fallen asleep in my hotel room the evening before as the weather was rapidly ch...

I usually say my obligatory prayers before bedtime. It is a Baha 'i tradition to recite Allah'u'Abha, which means God is Most...

Recently an art collector called to give her credit card information so that she could finish paying for a painting I made in Venice, Italy...

The expression, “One picture is worth a thousand words”, has special meaning to me as an artist—most of my life is visually inspired. I hav...

  About a month ago I was sleeping in a tree. My room at the village of Olon along the Pacific coast of Ecuador was built ten feet of...

  A dancer and ballerina met in a dance company and quickly fell in love. When they danced together it was if a grand drama played out ...

A forgotten archive appeared recently on my computer. It was simply titled "Poems" and by chance I found it on one of my backup...

These days I arise before dawn for breakfast. After the sun touches the horizon, nothing passes my lips until night comes. No food or wat...

The sensory experiences of the Pacific Ocean have come with me 3000 miles (4800 km) from Puerto Lopez, Ecuador to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Tho...

“Home is where the heart is.”  Sometimes when I am traveling across the world, I find myself in an exotic place that so captivat...

“When the baby looks around him
 It's such a sight to see
 He shares a simple secret
 With the wise man
 He's a strange...