Fall Shopping in the Age of Corona?
It feels strange this year with Covid, to not be doing my usual fall shopping. I would love to get a few new things at this time of the year, usually a dress or...
Joanne Jagoda
Cleaning Out The Old Clothes
For the last few weeks I’ve been on a cleaning tear and it feels good!...
A Letter To My Body
Dear Body, "After all those years of dieting, I'm done and I'm grateful. I have accepted that I will be ten or fifteen pounds overweight , and it doesn’t matter." ...
My Shoe Obsession Now Includes Comfort
If there were a twelve step program for shoe shoppers, sign me up....
I Lost My Hair and Found Myself
While in the waiting room, I looked around at the other women. Some wore wigs or colorful scarves, others let their bald heads show proudly. ...
How To Find Meaning In A Different Thanksgiving
At least for Thanksgiving, we could go to the market and be like the other families buying for the holiday and doing what they did....
Confessions Of A Discount Shopper
What it is about the act of shopping that draws me? Part of it is therapeutic, the absolute wipe out of anything on my mind. ...
Joanne Jagoda
After retiring in 2009, one inspiring writing workshop launched Joanne Jagoda of Oakland, California on an unexpected writing trajectory. Her short stories, poetry and nonfiction appear on-line and in print anthologies. In 2015, her poem, “Mr. Avocado Man” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Joanne continues taking a variety of Bay Area writing classes, enjoys Zumba, traveling and spoiling her seven grandchildren, who call her “Savta.” Joanne just published her first book of poetry, My Runaway Hourglass, joannejagoda.com