Best Books Ever Written – new piece installed yesterday for Art Basel. Last week, I pulled up to the pickup area to grab my boys after...

I once sat next to James Taylor for dinner at the home of a close friend who was dating Taylor’s daughter. Taylor is one of my musical...

I have longed for years to punch Grover Norquist in his bullying, doughy, self-righteous face. HOWEVER, even though...

My eldest stepped out of the car yesterday in a brand new lemon-yellow school shirt and khaki shorts, holding a bag full of pencils,...

“But, you’re gonna die soon, Daddy,” said my 4-yo, through the beginning of tears. “I don’t want you to die,” he continued. I rubbed his...

You’re on a beach, beneath a coconut palm, sipping a cold juice, as you watch the antics of a pudgy naked baby digging in the sand and...

The little girl kept doing it … marching straight to the front, skipping everyone in line and going down the water slide. After the 3rd...

“Did you ever get divorced?” 6-yo Kai recently asked my wife, as we three sat on the couch munching white-cheddar popcorn. “No, that was...

Dusk Falls on Dan’s Delicious, acrylic on canvas, 30″ x 48″, 2002, Stuart Sheldon Helplessness happens. We are born completely powerless...

“Daddy, do babies have tiny nipples?” my 4-yo, Bodhi, asked me, lounging in a fresh pair of PJs. “Yes,” I answered from the couch,...

Do your parents construct your soul at that climactic moment? Or does it pre-exist, only to be reactivated in that surge of...

Goodbye Old Friend, 20″X23″ Acrylic, paper, antique book pages and cardboard on panel with original poetry, 2005, Stuart Sheldon “Speak...

Inspiration arrives when she damn well pleases, and when she does show her elusive face, you grab her by both cheeks and French kiss that...

Last week, my 6 yr-old frolicked in a large pool with a couple 9-yr old girls he befriended at a family resort we hit with my mother,...

I once sat under a large sycamore tree with the poet Allen Ginsberg and a small cluster of his students. He was thick around the middle...

The small acts of service nobody sees define your character. When someone gets a “good feeling” about you, this selflessness is one of...

My wife does not hold onto anger or disappointment. It is one of the steel rods that form her character. Had she held grudges, our...

As a palliative care nurse, Bronnie Ware, spent time at the bedsides of patients who went home to die. In the last days of their existenc...

“You’re amazing. I loved it. Wouldn’t change a thing!” Unless you’re talking to Stevie Wonder, this is not legitimate feedback. It’s...

“Why is there no 13th floor on that building?” my 5-yr-old son asked, his head tilted back. Sure enough, spray-painted on the side of the...