Genealogy

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

-Sam Levenson

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Jae Hodges

Sep 21
2 min

Hacienda

Sally Mann has said that "part of the artists job is to make the commonplace singular, to project a different interpretation onto the...

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Jae Hodges

Dec 11, 2021
2 min

Nor Cast Your Pearls Before Swine

Knowledge and courage, like pearls cast before swine, should not be wasted on those who cannot or will not appreciate it. In my book, The...

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Jae Hodges

Nov 8, 2021
1 min

Le Ricordanze, 9 Oct 1990

Prague Orloj, Old Town Hall, Czech Republic, 2012 Translated this means "the memories" and is from Giacomo Leopardi's poem of this name...

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Jae Hodges

Oct 6, 2020
2 min

The Weight of Beauty

Cut Glass Decanter, Hernando, Florida, 2020 "What artists say about their own work is compelling because it tells us something about what...

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Jae Hodges

Sep 15, 2020
1 min

The Reassurance of Age

"The public, as whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognise extreme...

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Jae Hodges

Aug 2, 2020
2 min

Mothers and Daughters

Chelsie reviewed The Rose and the Whip on her site Reading is My Remedy at https://readingismyremedy.wordpress.com/ yesterday. She is...

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Jae Hodges

Jul 27, 2020
2 min

Rye n' Injun Bread

Thanks to Patty for today’s awesome review of The Rose and the Whip at https://bookscookslooks.com/. In her honor, I’m sharing a recipe...

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Jae Hodges

Jul 22, 2020
1 min

George's Fedora

From under the tutelage of a past fading perhaps, but never lost From out of a mirror we step On wobbling feet, walk ahead Seeing...

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Jae Hodges

Jul 19, 2020
1 min

Seeing Past

In my second novel, one of the themes I'm working with is seeing the past for what it is. Not truth, as truth exists only as long as the...

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The Rose, the Whip and the Ties That Bind

Jae Hodges

Jul 3, 2020
2 min

The Rose, the Whip and the Ties That Bind

House of Seven Gables, Salem, Massachusetts, October 2004 I found Lidia Wardell through her brother-in-law, Samuel Wardwell, the younger...

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Jae Hodges

Jun 16, 2020
1 min

Chimes

Time stops the instant we fail to see the pain and the beauty suchlike A week ago, this clock chimed for the first time, perhaps in my...

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Jae Hodges

Apr 6, 2020
2 min

Legacies

I've been thinking about legacies as the central theme of my next novel. The legacy as a physical representation of a family heritage,...

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Jae Hodges

Apr 2, 2020
1 min

Even on Our Greyest Days . . .

We can find a spot of color in an otherwise bleak world; we can imagine a better day, near or far, when a spark can light up a picture;...

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Jae Hodges

Feb 19, 2020
2 min

The Way Your Life Goes

I recently started reading The Lives of Lucien Freud by William Feaver (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019). I know his name, as an artist, and I'm...

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Jae Hodges

Jan 26, 2020
2 min

Cezanne's Apples

I'm reading Francine Prose's What to Read and Why (Harper Perennial, 2018), a book that presents 33 essays on reading, and the written...

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Jae Hodges

Jan 5, 2020
2 min

Contemplating Life

I recently read Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity and Love by Dani Shapiro as part of my research for my next novel. One of...

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Jae Hodges

Dec 15, 2019
2 min

Thoughts on Christmas Past

My mother and I always spent Christmas Eve at my grandparents house. My grandfather, wearing his special red felt Christmas vest, would...

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Jae Hodges

Nov 28, 2019
3 min

Ode to a Bowl

Thanksgiving represents for me some of my happiest growing up memories. My grandmother's house was the traditional gathering place, with...

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Jae Hodges

Nov 23, 2019
1 min

Letters from the Past

The main protagonist in my second novel is a man named Martin Lovering. As it turns out, this man is my sixth cousin four times removed....

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