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
Author, Photographer, Genealogist, Traveler
The Abstracted Artist
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
- 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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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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