David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
Navigating Apps with Changes in Memory: Join Our Study
December 2, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine seeks older adults with mild memory loss for a study on improving navigation apps. Participation is valuable,...
1966: The Garden of What Was and Was Not
In Binghamton, March 1966 Here is what finally became of Ginny or, I should say, the parallel paths we once shared, then separated. (Following is an excerpt from The Garden of What Was and Was Not.) In America, the…
Funny Music Sample Chapter
…a sample chapter from Funny Music by David Stone Maggie was waiting at home. I had to bring her car back soon. She’d accepted responsibility for driving me to the bus station, the dumpy, neglected art deco place that still lit…
Fusible Links: Sex & Civil Rights in a Small Town
Sex and Civil Rights in a Small Town, 1966 “Well,” Bruce announced, “on Monday, we’ll have to go out to looking for jobs, but first, I’m going to show you how to have a good time. We’ll go over to…
Stories from the End of the World
Things I Learned While Insane From a Novel by David Stone …from After Peter: Stories from the End of the World I guess I’d better clarify where I was coming from and clear up the mystery of why it…
Messes I Made While You Were Waiting for Godot
Rondo This is a chapter from The Messes I Made While You Were Waiting for Godot How to make a decent knot after more than a quarter-million words, some good jokes, wisecracks, stories, revelations and what we learned on the…
Cats in New York City: Adventures, A Cheese Shop in the Bronx
Cats in New York City is a free chapter from Travels with George: New York, a story about the cats’ visit to New York’s real Little Italy, Arthur Avenue in The Bronx. By David Stone / Artwork by Deborah Julian Arthur…
Truths About Conscious Awareness
Truths about conscious awareness… There must once have been at least a jiffy of wholeness, a twinkle in the cohesion of seamless belonging. Every cell may contain residues of history in its universal library. Our desire to rejoin seasons every…
50 Trillion Versions Make Up the Puzzle of You
50 Trillion Versions of You… or more! No matter how many times we hear that number. No matter how easily the words spin off our lips. It’s so big we can probably never grasp it in a practical way. But…
The Famous Cat Who Thought He Owned Van Gogh’s Shoes
Cat and Van Gogh’s Shoes is from Famous Artists’ Cats: The Book Vincent Van Gogh may have painted more pairs of shoes than he did starry nights or windy days in fields around Arles. By David Stone /…
Gauguin’s Puppies with a Cat
Paul Gauguin’s puppies with a cat… Long before a spiritually tormented Paul Gauguin painted Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, which he considered his masterpiece, his path from birth in Paris to Tahiti…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor