Jo PageAug 31, 20122 minSummer, StillI 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 w...
Jo PageAug 28, 20121 minPesto: A SonnetTakes longer to write a sonnet than it does to make the great, green elixir......and longer still to savor a plate of it on fettucine.......
Jo PageAug 24, 20122 minThe Water CureJust 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 bei...
Jo PageAug 20, 20122 minThe Tell-tale ShelvesAt 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 labe...
Jo PageAug 17, 201213 minRooming 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...
Jo PageAug 14, 20121 minSunflowers on My DeskThe sunflowers wave their heads around like girls and boys with unkempt hair and short attention spans. 'look, here! look, there!' they...
Jo PageAug 11, 20122 minDinner MusicFriends 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 m...
Jo PageAug 11, 20122 minWhere Some of the Wild Things AreI 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. ...
Jo PageAug 4, 20123 minDon't Eff with the IneffableIf there is anything missing in the vitriolic debates about the relative worth/worthlessness of religion, it’s the question of the ineffa...
Jo PageAug 2, 20121 minBats AmoréOkay, not. Six weeks into this lovely, historic house and there have been bats. Five bats in three weeks, in fact. This troubled me so ...
