My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

  Saints, shamans, spirit beings, extra-terrestrials, creatures of every type, the sun and moon . . . these are just some of the subj...

 It is a rite of passage each year in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The second weekend in July brings artisans from all over the globe together f...

  I have loved drawing nudes for as long as I have been an artist. It is an age-old practice in western art. Art history books ...

The nineteenth anniversary of the death of my nineteen year old daughter Naomi is nearing—July 5, 2018. After she died I thought of t...

  Can we perceive future events—without proof, conscious reasoning or evidence? This is intuition. Prophecy and clairvoyance are relate...

For years I have been dazzled by skies at sunset. I study the time in the evening when the sun is disappearing and daylight fades. Afte...

It is alarming that people don’t read books much anymore—especially young people. “A number of recent studies have demonstrated that fict...

Last night as I was meditating before bed, something unusual happened. I am in Denver, Colorado for an art show. My hotel is quite comfor...

“Inshallah.” This is what Amira said the last time I spoke with her and asked if she wanted to go to college. Her father, my friend ...

I was fifteen, playing basketball after school on a springtime afternoon with friends at our local playground. Suddenly, my distraught mo...

Both my parents were avid consumers of information. My mother, a speed reader, read five library books a week for decades. When she wa...