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Joanne Sherman's Off the Cuff

A former Associate Editor of the Shelter Island Reporter, she’s won multiple awards for her humor columns. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Southern Living, Cosmopolitan, Family Circle and other publications. She wrote a column, “Can We Talk”, in Toastmaster, a magazine for Toastmasters International, and was an award-winning humorist/commentator for WPBX radio in Southampton. She and her husband, Hoot Sherman, live on Shelter Island.

Christmas by the numbers: 333 333 35123. At first glance, that might look like a phone or tracking number, but it's not. If you say the numbers out loud, it'll probably sound familiar.
In "Adventures and Misadventures," Our columnist Joanne Sherman takes the scenic route down Memory Lane with Vegas, Elvis and a Waffle House breakfast. Just don't ask her for directions.
In her latest Off the Cuff, our columnist Joanne Sherman says it's important to mind your words. Along the way she conjures Mary Had a Little Lamb, Esther Williams, and Albert Einstein, menaces a dead poet, and comes up a moral worth heeding.
I got my gift of gab from my dad. He was famous for being able to talk to everyone — friends and strangers alike. Me too! Words just tumble right out of my mouth. It doesn’t matter where I am — in line at the bank, the DMV, or restaurants.
In her latest Off the Cuff, Joanne Sherman takes her "Grease" era brain shopping for a car in our brave new world and realizes how far she's come since her first vehicle. (And how some things never change.)
Our columnist Joanne Sherman admits that while she's no slave to fashion, dressing up can have its perks.
In "Recipes for Disaster," our columnist Joanne Sherman looks at 30-minute meals and other cooking show promises that never seem to work out as advertised.
In "it's the Dog's Fault," our Off the Cuff columnist Joanne Sherman copes with wayward fingers before realizing who actually is in charge.
In her latest Off the Cuff, our columnist Joanne Sherman recalls a chicken recipe hack that didn't work the way she'd imagined.
In her latest "Off the Cuff," our columnist Joanne Sherman handles 'Rachel' and the rest of the robo callers who now have the gall to hide behind our sacred 749 numbers.