My father was just six when his mother died in 1939. She was only twenty-eight and pregnant. Born Estera in Warsaw, my maternal...

Seems we all need a minute right now. Utterly worn out by headlines and big picture thinking. Overwhelm demands radical reduction. A...

Last year, my son got straight A’s on his 10th grade report card. But, let’s be clear, this is not  one of those insufferable “My child...

We all endeavor to pad our nests with the feathers of our desires ... then fall backward after long days into these sumptuous...

Step outside, tilt your head back and raise your arms straight into the air. Silently gaze up at your hands, your fingers, the sunlight...

Five years is a hefty chunk in a life. Moving to Costa Rica with our kids in 2018 was the luckiest thing I’ve ever done.

It’s been well over a year since my last blog post … and what a year. Make that 4 years! That’s how long we’ve lived in Costa Rica. We...

Follow the Bubbles 3, Acrylic on our Costa Rica architectural plans, 31.5x23.5" 2000 “On the third day, my room became a cell, which...

Our dads laughed in college together and later, Ron Rothberg and I giggled side-by-side in diapers. We haven't stopped laughing since....

The New Tropic's host, Stuart Sheldon, meets with Robert Lee, MC for Speakfridays, to learn about the origins of this gathering and how...

The New Tropic's host, Stuart Sheldon, goes behind the scenes with fellow Miami artist, Typoe, to get a glimpse into his creative process...

Artists Stuart Sheldon and Zoë Buckman both created billboards for last year’s For Freedoms 50 State Initiative. As the largest creative...

Behold the Perfect Moment / Perfect Family / Perfect Life* In this recent photo, a gorgeous family camps on a faraway beach in paradise,...

Today we’d like to introduce you to Stuart Sheldon. Stuart, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how...

“We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there...

Standing shoulder to shoulder as our kids sprinted down field last year, I casually mentioned to a fellow Miami soccer/surfer dad that we...

“A distressingly large portion of the world doesn’t do you any good whatsoever. In fact, it does you bad. Casts static between your ears,...

If we were to bury a time capsule filled with vestiges of visual culture in 2018, we would include the work of the following...

“Dust everywhere… and out of that emerged this beautiful boy with the bluest eyes I’d ever seen, holding his hand out to help me to my...

We’ve been in the faraway jungle nearly three months, and one enormous benefit I’ve noticed is how much less decision-making I face each...