My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

I knew I had to be on the street, up close at eye level for "La Procesión del Silencio", or the Procession of Silence. It is a yea...

  Since moving to our little village outside Oaxaca, Mexico, Amy and I have have been strongly influenced by our new culture. From our secon...

We are blessed with children coming   to us in our village of San Pedro Ixtlahuaca, in rural southern Mexico. O n Sunday mornings, t he “vec...

A painting that began 23 years ago has been completed. July 5, 1999 my oldest daughter died of cancer at the age of nineteen. Numerous times...

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.  -THOMAS MANN The spectre of war continually afflicts the world. Center stage now ...

A trip to Mexico City is a phantasmagoria of sights and sounds⏤always with surprises. Amy and I love visiting and hope someday to live there...

Visible to the east from our rooftop patio, standing on a mountaintop is  Monte Albán , one of the most important archeological sites in all...

 I thought about ants. They work so hard and industriously, making kingdoms on earth. In New Mexico, USA they seemed innocent enough, even n...

It started a couple of years ago when I made an oil painting of a young Frida Kahlo ,_ (Mexican,-6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954 ) with a skeleto...

Amy and I moved to our house in the village of San Pedro Ixtlahuaca 331 days ago. It is on the outskirts of Oaxaca, the famous city in south...

“O Son of Spirit! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable ...