by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Sep 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
reetings, dear Readers, This summer I seemed to have wandered off. I had a ravishing trip to France in the spring, and then more travel, plus Covid and a broken toe! I’d like to jump in now to wish everyone a splashy but not crazy return to...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | May 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
adical waiting may not look much like it does in Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot. As you may know, two seemingly un-housed individuals are awaiting a certain Godot who may or may not do something grand, such as save them. Save them from what? you may ask. The best I...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | May 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
Dear Reader, I would say that these are difficult times. The war in Gaza falls heavy on our hearts for the Jews and the Palestinians. Holocaust Remembrance Day was this week. I was reading that the final resting place of hundreds of thousands of Jews is as yet...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Apr 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
ome of you may have noticed that I refer from time to time to my then-husband, Donald Avery Sharif Graham. I often cite him when people ask me why I moved to France. My then-husband, I will say, was offered an opportunity to work in the archives of the teacher and...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Apr 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
Origin Middle English: from Old Northern French waitier, of Germanic origin; related to wake. Early senses included ‘lie in wait (for’), ‘observe carefully’, and ‘be watchful’. This is How I Wait! And what are the vagabonds in Beckett’s play waiting for?...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Mar 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
ne thing about not living in Paris is that you can day-dream about what you would do there, could do there. I love the concerts, which are plentiful this time of the year. I would say that the French have a more seamless meld between the sacred and the...