My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

  A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. —Marcel Proust Santa Fe winter Of a sudden, the weather here i...

I am now an immigrant, along with Amy. We have “Residente Permanente” visas from Mexico. It all happened rather suddenly but a huge change i...

  The mid wife looked up at me from where my newborn child lay and asked, “Do you want to cut the cord?” It was a special moment in the livi...

He called on New Year day around dinner time but my phone was turned off. When I saw I had a message from him, at 10:30 PM, I was surprised ...

 “The more you want, the more you lack.” Five decades after hearing the sentence in my freshman college philosophy class, the words have sta...

 “Home is where your passport is.” – Anonymous From the time Amy sent her passport off to Philadelphia to be updated with her new name, we h...

  “No I am not roaming aimlessly through the alleys and bazaar I am a lover searching for his beloved”   —Rumi For years I have been satisfi...

  I may be frustrated by the pace of our move, but there is a silver lining—we can be more deliberate in our decisions. I haven’t even decid...

Purge. This is what comes to mind frequently these days as Amy and I go through possessions, deciding what stays with us and what goes. Fort...

I feel as though I am a sailor and the wind is filling the sails of my vessel, taking Amy and I toward a future we do not totally understand...

These autumn days, wonderful colors, textures and temperatures beckon to be explored and enjoyed. For decades I have gone up into the mounta...