NY WalkAbout: Times Square Boxers

Every summer I have to have an adventure.

The Opiate of the Masses

I am at Bachkovo, the 11th century Bulgarian monastery on the outskirts of Plovdiv. A friend has taken me there…

Girls’ Rules

Barbara Confino

I never understood girls’ rules. As a teenager my perplexity only increased.

LIFE AMONG THE GODS

Were I reborn a god, I would insist upon being a Hindu one. Anyone with good sense…

Menstruation: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

It is no small thing to discover blood leaking from your loins at about age 14. It…

An Alien in our Midst

Going from small village to small village during the rainy season in the Andes, wearing what I can only describe as an…

Acting Instincts

Perhaps the reason so many women want to be actresses is because they already are. Actresses.

A MEDITATION ON THE INTERNET WHILE SOJOURNING IN EGYPT

The Old Order of the Western World begins here, in Egypt, Great Mother Culture of the West. Sumer and…

Interior WalkAbout: Parallel Lives

Writer and artist Barbara Confino’s new series, WalkAbout: the World as Image, Imagination, and…

BioEsthetics: Nature as Aesthete

In the end we go back to the beginning.