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    Vintage Stone Slippers (circa 2010)
    Jo Page
    • Sep 1, 2018
    • 3 min

    Vintage Stone Slippers (circa 2010)

    In Abraham Verghese’s novel, Cutting for Stone, the miserly, mythical Baghad merchant, Abu Kassem, wore tattered and torn...
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    Cape Ann
    Jo Page
    • Aug 14, 2018
    • 2 min

    Cape Ann

    I think I don't vacation well. At least, not here. Not where I am now. Which is, ostensibly, on vacation. I think I know why. I've been...
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    The Health of Planned Parenthood
    Jo Page
    • Jul 26, 2018
    • 3 min

    The Health of Planned Parenthood

    Several years ago on successive Thursdays I congregated, along with other clergy and other supporters of their services, in front of...
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    Watch Yr. Ps and Qs.  And Save Your PTLs.
    Jo Page
    • Jul 8, 2018
    • 3 min

    Watch Yr. Ps and Qs. And Save Your PTLs.

    Please. If you want to show how holy you are or impress people with the sincerity and fidelity of your faith, just—please—stop peppering...
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    Let ICE Help You Find Your Kids
    Jo Page
    • Jun 12, 2018
    • 3 min

    Let ICE Help You Find Your Kids

    If you can believe the incredible irony of this, U.S Customs and Immigration has recently distributed a flyer at detention centers across...
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    Sabbath is Served
    Jo Page
    • Jun 2, 2018
    • 4 min

    Sabbath is Served

    One of the peculiar things that has happened since I’ve been living alone, no longer married, the girls out of the house, no longer...
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    Making Book
    Jo Page
    • May 24, 2018
    • 3 min

    Making Book

    I have spent the last few months reading A Serious Book about Serious Books. Morning, Noon and Night: Finding the Meaning of Life’s...
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    Wanting to Cross to Safety
    Jo Page
    • May 11, 2018
    • 3 min

    Wanting to Cross to Safety

    It’s hard to say if recent personal events have freakishly affected my Netflix habits, but certainly I feel the weight of these times...
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    Remote Mourning
    Jo Page
    • Apr 26, 2018
    • 3 min

    Remote Mourning

    Real parish life isn’t as tantalizing as PBS’ “Grantchester” (nor most clerics the eye candy of James Norton’s priest, Sidney Chambers), ...
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    Domestic Gridlock
    Jo Page
    • Apr 9, 2018
    • 3 min

    Domestic Gridlock

    Now technically speaking, I do not live “off the grid.” Which is, I suppose, a good thing because I never intended to. That said, I never...
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    Expiration Dates
    Jo Page
    • Mar 23, 2018
    • 3 min

    Expiration Dates

    In the interest of not offering any spoilers, I won’t name the brilliant and best-selling novel I just read--oops, too late!---set during...
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    Not Dust. Not Earth. Ash.
    Jo Page
    • Mar 9, 2018
    • 3 min

    Not Dust. Not Earth. Ash.

    “…faith begins at the point where atheists suppose it must be at an end. Our faith begins with the bleakness and power which is the night...
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    The Acceptable Time
    Jo Page
    • Feb 21, 2018
    • 2 min

    The Acceptable Time

    Lord, you can help when earthly armor fails us; You can save when deadly sin assails us. --hymnwriter Matthaus A. von Lowenstern,...
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    Future Sex...Just in Time for Valentine's Day
    Jo Page
    • Feb 11, 2018
    • 3 min

    Future Sex...Just in Time for Valentine's Day

    When I was asked by the staff of the New York State Writers Insitute to introduce and moderate a discussion with Emily Witt of her book,...
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    Designing Men
    Jo Page
    • Jan 30, 2018
    • 3 min

    Designing Men

    I grew up in a house full of women—my mother, my sisters, our dog--my father having died when I was nine. Like my own mother, I became a...
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    Cruelest Month
    Jo Page
    • Jan 19, 2018
    • 3 min

    Cruelest Month

    Remember how T.S. Eliot in “The Wasteland” famously called April “the cruelest month”? Indeed, he did, complaining about lilacs “breeding...
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    The Solace of Sunday Christmas (12.25.16)
    Jo Page
    • Dec 25, 2017
    • 3 min

    The Solace of Sunday Christmas (12.25.16)

    When Christmas falls on a Sunday you can bet that the sanctuary, candle-gleaming and chock-full at the Christmas Eve service, will be...
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    There's Something About Mary
    Jo Page
    • Dec 13, 2017
    • 3 min

    There's Something About Mary

    Consider Mary. That Mary. As in the Virgin Mary.The Virgin Mary? Well, what does that even mean? When I think of “virgin” I think of...
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    A Great and Mighty Wondrous Thanksgiving
    Jo Page
    • Dec 3, 2017
    • 3 min

    A Great and Mighty Wondrous Thanksgiving

    It’s Monday of Thanksgiving week and I am sitting in the tidy cottage that is my older sister’s house on Cape Cod. We are planning to...
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    Come, Ye Disconsolate
    Jo Page
    • Nov 17, 2017
    • 2 min

    Come, Ye Disconsolate

    Tomas Moore (1779-1852) and Thomas Hastings (1784-1872) were from Dublin and Litchfield County, Connecticut, respectively, and there is...
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