In this Story... with Joanne Greene

Joanne’s book, “By Accident: A Memoir of Letting Go” is available for pre-order from your favorite online book seller. Release date is June 20, 2023. Stay tuned to hear if Joanne will be speaking at a bookstore near you. If you’re interested in having her come to your local bookstore, contact her directly at joannergreene@gmail.com or get updates on her website at joanne-greene.com and make sure to sign up for her newsletter!In this story, I consider An Apple Watch…. What is this tendency I have

"By Accident: A Memoir of Letting Go" by Joanne Greene is available for pre-order from your online favorite book sellers. Release date June 20,2023Learn more at joanne-greene.comIn this Story...I Move to CaliforniaI learned to drive a stick shift after convincing my parents to buy me a used 1972 white VW bug with standard transmission for my twenty-first birthday. Five months later, it was stolen in broad daylight out of the parking lot behind Papillon, the wine and cheese café where I worked that

"By Accident: A Memoir of Letting Go" by Joanne Greene is available for pre-order from your online favorite book sellers. Release date June 20,2023Learn more at joanne-greene.comIn this Story... A Love Letter to My HometownDear Brookline, Massachusetts, There is so much about you that I treasure, yet I couldn’t wait to leave. I reveled in your history and architecture, your proximity to Boston and even Fenway Park, your neighborhoods filled with two-family homes and three-unit brick apartment

"By Accident: A Memoir of Letting Go" by Joanne Greene is available for pre-order from your online favorite book sellers. Release date June 20,2023Learn more at joanne-greene.comIn this Story...I Lose My PhoneFor the first forty-six years of my life, I functioned, if not thrived, without the use of a cell phone. For the next five years, I carried a cell phone that was simply a phone. It could neither take photos nor provide me with answers to all my questions. Yet now, well into my sixties, I feel

"By Accident: A Memoir of Letting Go" by Joanne Greene is available for pre-order from your online favorite book sellers. Release date June 20,2023Learn more at joanne-greene.comIn this Story....I Share A Brief Family History with MeatMy mother didn’t trust the meat that supermarkets sold. She once said that McDonald’s couldn’t be serving beef because they were only charging fifteen cents per hamburger. She only bought meat from Lipsky’s, the kosher meat market on Beacon Street in Brookline,

"By Accident: A Memoir of Letting Go" by Joanne Greene is available for pre-order from your online favorite book sellers. Release date June 20,2023Learn more at joanne-greene.comIn this Story...I Share a Little Women's HistoryI couldn’t throw out, okay or recycle, the pink “While You Were Out” slip that showed I’d missed a phone call from Gloria Steinam. It was 1976 and I was producing a weekly feminist show for Berekeley’s KRE Radio called “Women Making Waves.” You get the double meaning, right

In 1977, the new film starring Jane Fonda was “Julia”. It’s about the writer Lillian Hellman’s lifelong friendship with Julia, a wealthy American who fought against the Nazis when they invaded the university she was attending in Vienna. I worked at KRE radio in Berkeley and it was rare for me to land an interview with an A level celebrity. The publicist had told me to meet Ms. Fonda at the Stanford Court Hotel on Nob Hill, in her suite. Jane Fonda was not only an actress at the time but a major