Jo Page

In 1999, I had just accepted a call to Grace Lutheran Church in a suburb of the capital region of New York. Before starting my call...

Perhaps because I am—and I believe rightfully---keto diet-phobic, I have been thinking about potatoes a lot these days. I like potatoes....

Dear Capitol Insurrectionists: It isn't lost on me that "virus," "victory" and "violence" all start with "vi." So it occurred to me to...

Seems a very fortuitous time for something from 2016--the song at the end is a gem: Hanumas. No, it’s not a yoga asana. Or the name of a...

My Inner Misanthrope cringes at the cuteness of holiday movies and for that I am truly sorry. I make up for it by weeping through my...

27 November 2020 So today’s topic is beauty--not of the “Ding-dong, Avon calling” kind--though I did get a kick out of googling their...

Years ago, when I was as green as baby kale, I worked for a small, feisty and effective arts organization. My boss was a Daytimer day...

You're familiar with those adjective-noun phrases that seem as stuck together as peanut butter and jelly: It's always an "utter"...

You know what I'm talking about. You do. It's the "Today I get my stuff done. I keep it normal even if it is only normal-ish. I call a...

I am writing this column days before I am due to file it with my editor. That's unusual. And also--who knows what fresh hell may come...

Here's a tale worth re-telling. And here's the setting for the tale: Three years ago I was selling my house after a disturbing marriage...

For the past two summers and not quite by design, I have taken vacations by myself. It's not awful, but I decided that for summer 2020 I...

My poetry teacher when I was an undergrad--she, the ultra-cool Heather McHugh--taught that the key to making your own writing better was...

How's your sleep these days? Are you sleeping like a baby or a log? Are you getting enough beauty rest, enough shut eye? Are you sleeping...

I am an ordained pastor in the whitest denomination in the United States that was founded by a medieval church renegade whose...

When I was in graduate school in Charlottesville, Virginia, I was the only white woman on the bus from my apartment to the...

(The title is thanks to Emily Dickinson's essential and wondrous poem.) A few months before my last trip to France a couple of years ago,...

It's Pandemic Jeopardy! And since we don't have any Jeopardy buzzers to press or enough PPE, I'll just list the answer and you can write...

Before I became a pastor, I worked for a couple of magazines. So I am used to thinking about Valentine's Day at Thanksgiving, shamrocks...

The hell if I know. Let's start here: The Hindu prayer goes like this: “Lead me from the unreal to the real.” The story of Lazarus is a...