Interviews

Before a hiking trip to the Grand Canyon in the 1990s, Dee Lewis's daughter repeatedly asked, "Mom, are you breaking in your boots?" Dee admitted that yes, she was breaking them in—while sitting at her desk. She hadn't quite gotten to the great outdoors, because the great indoors was calling.

Although Scott Putnam grew up in a Christian Science household, the path that led him to his healing practice in Portland, Oregon, took many twists and turns along the way. Born in Illinois, Scott moved to San Jose, California, in the seventh grade, and later went on to graduate from Principia College, where he lettered in tennis and worked as a sportswriter on the school paper.

THE HOUSE LIGHTS DIM and guest conductor Alastair Willis walks briskly, but gracefully, to his place at the podium as the audience applauds. Without missing a beat, he lifts his baton, and The New York Pops' "A Holiday Celebration" concert is underway.

FOR SOME COMPOSERS, CHOREOGRAPHERS, and painters, a composition can be launched by the sparest of ideas—a phrase of a few tones, a rhythm of lines on a city street, or a surprising color combination in a wildflower. Some artists acknowledge that they're simply taking dictation from an all-creative divine intelligence.

FORMER EDITOR of the Journal, Allison "Skip" Phinney, a Christian Science practitioner and teacher in Boston, talks about what's on his mind.

I enter Estrella Romero's sunny kitchen the morning of our interview as she's busily slicing tomatoes and plopping them into a blender. "Te gusta?" [Do you like it?] she asks me, holding up a clove of garlic before adding it to the other ingredients.

Tell people the truth, says Martin Sirota , a Christian Science teacher and practitioner in New York City. He doesn't care if they agree with him.

If I had to describe ANN STEWART with only one word? How about adventurer. For example, when I mentioned to one of her Christian Science students that I had an upcoming interview with Ann, her student said, "Well, she definitely encourages us to get in and swim rather than sit by the side of the pool and talk about it!" That quality of really living —of grabbing life and taking it all in—rather than just thinking or hypothesizing about life's deepest questions informs just about everything Ann does.

Qatar, a thriving country slightly smaller than Connecticut is tucked in the middle of the Persian Gulf region, and is home to ALEKH GREWAL and his wife, Farida, and their two daughters, Emma (14) and Abigail (12). Mr.

One of the biggest changes in business over the past decade has been the availability of the worldwide Internet and the emergence of the flexible office, notes businesswoman CADI NONES. As President and CEO of Arcadia LLC—a global management consulting company Ms.