Jo Page

“Every Camp Fire Girl must understand that the secret of her life, whether for joy or for sorrow, lies in herself. If she wishes success...

This year Yom Kippur, the day of atonement and one of the two highest holy days in the Jewish calendar, begins on the day that I will...

I am writing this on a Saturday night, midway through the tag sale that I hope will culminate on Sunday in a mad rush with people buying...

“For those who want to save their life will lose it…..” These are notorious words of Jesus from Matthew’s gospel. They have, for...

James Baldwin's short story, "Going to Meet the Man" may be the one story we need to read in these times. Masterfully, but agonizingly...

Let me begin by saying that, on Monday afternoon, when I read the lessons for this Sunday morning, I was excited. Once in a very, very...

There is a pun here somewhere: I can’t seem to figure out how to wrap my mind around the movie “Eyes Without a Face.” A classic 1960...

Smack dab in the center of Cape Ann--Massachusetts’ “other cape”--is Dogtown Commons, over 3000 acres of storied wilderness full of...

The rain is raining all around. It falls on field and tree. It rains on the umbrellas here And on the ships at sea. --Robert Louis...

I am always both haunted and horrified by Schubert's setting of the Goethe poem, "Die Erlkonig." If you don't know it, it's more than...

This is a posting about dancing. But first: In Nautilus magazine, journalist Daniel Gross writes about a “silent disco” party at South...

Okay, so this morning I was filling in at a colleague's church and it was time for the Children's Time/Sermon/Moment--it's called...

By some strange coincidence, I find myself reading three very different memoirs by three very different white men. I’ve just finished...

Watch carefully because I’m about accomplish this fancy, journalistic sleight of hand in which I start this post in a curmudgeonly vein...

In Greek mythology, Daedalus was the great craftsman, capable creating anything—which would make him a good web designer! He is credited...

I’ve always been drawn to the poet Theodore Roethke’s line, “In a dark time, the eye begins to see.” It’s the first line of an eponymous...

Labor Day picnic, three years ago: by the time we got to the lime sugar cookies and the last of the strawberry-basil cocktails at the end...

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the...

My religious observances run the usual Judeo-Christian gamut with the occasional Hindu celebration thrown in (you know how we do, dear...