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Sep 13, 20121 min read
The Body at Rest. And in Motion.
"And if my life is like the dust--oooh, that hides the glow of the rose, what good am I? Heaven only knows." Thank you, always,...
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Jo Page
Sep 8, 20122 min read
With Linnea in the South of France
The wind blew hot today; it blew my skirt— it whipped my skirt, but not as at Les Baux. Back then the denim flapped a furious code into...
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Jo Page
Sep 7, 20122 min read
Breathing and Singing
The last thing I want to do after hearing a few hours of speeches from the DNC--or the RNC--is to be told what to think by the...
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Jo Page
Aug 31, 20121 min read
Blue Moon
Oh, and then I stepped outside--mid-laundry--and saw the second full moon for August. What a shimmer of blonde and silver, what cheek to...
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Jo Page
Aug 31, 20122 min read
Summer, Still
I do. I take umbrage at James Taylor's vapid lyric "The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time." It seems important to disagree...
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Aug 28, 20121 min read
Pesto: A Sonnet
Takes longer to write a sonnet than it does to make the great, green elixir......and longer still to savor a plate of it on...
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Aug 24, 20122 min read
The Water Cure
Just having bought this new/old house--what I've come to think of as a piece of history--a real vacation was out of the question. But...
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Jo Page
Aug 20, 20122 min read
The Tell-tale Shelves
At a used bookstore on New York's lower east side I was amused to see that the shelf labelled 'Erotica' was just one above the shelf...
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Jo Page
Aug 17, 201213 min read
Rooming with Emily (an untrue story)
She is understandably misinterpreted, an eccentric who likes her cocktails. This means she’s always at Maggie’s, the little bar we all go...
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Jo Page
Aug 14, 20121 min read
Sunflowers on My Desk
The sunflowers wave their heads around like girls and boys with unkempt hair and short attention spans. 'look, here! look, there!' they...
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Jo Page
Aug 11, 20122 min read
Dinner Music
Friends over for dinner last night--first official dinner party in the house, I suppose. It was a happy nod to A Pig in Provence and my...
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Jo Page
Aug 11, 20122 min read
Where Some of the Wild Things Are
I suffer from a predictable francophilia. It's true. I'm a sucker for the language. Not only does it sound good, it feels good to speak....
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Jo Page
Aug 4, 20123 min read
Don't Eff with the Ineffable
If there is anything missing in the vitriolic debates about the relative worth/worthlessness of religion, it’s the question of the...
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Aug 2, 20121 min read
Bats Amoré
Okay, not. Six weeks into this lovely, historic house and there have been bats. Five bats in three weeks, in fact. This troubled me so...
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