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.

Off the Cuff: And Away We Go!

It happens every year about this time, the magic. We — and I use the term "we" very loosely here — gather our most precious belongings and stuff them inside the 33-foot motorhome that will serve as our winter domicile until the ospreys return to Ram Island.

Off the Cuff: Perils & Pastries at the Polls

The Gazette's new columnist, Joanne Sherman, takes a humorous look back at days before electronic polling. Hint: it involved a LOT of pastries, with some sewing thrown in for good measure.

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