Frances Jaeger

Frances Jaeger finds the poetry in housework — with some help from The Bard.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again...like Machiavelli!

Looking for a slightly less-stressful holiday season? Frances Jaeger tells Santa to dial it back a notch.

On the day traditionally spent in the kitchen with the gobbler, Frances Jaeger is in another room tending the gurgler.

COVID has complicated what was used to be an open-and-shut decision for teachers and professors in classrooms everywhere.

Frances Jaeger finds a lesson packed in the box between the burger and prize.

I woke up at 4 a.m. and went to my screened-in porch to read, but I gave up a few minutes later. The birdsong was so loud, I couldn't focus on my novel.As…

Christmas 2019, my husband bought us a record player. In January, we traveled to Tacoma to see old friends I had not visited in 23 years. In my mind, both…

As a specialist in Caribbean literature, I teach about slavery every year. When we read the Cuban novel, Sab, or watch Tomás Alea Gutierrez's film The…

"This ménage à trois is not working," I informed my husband over the breakfast table.Of course, the current state of affairs is his fault, because he…