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Jo Ostgarden

@joozgrdn

Jo Ostgarden, a Minnesotan by birth, an Arizonan by education and Portlandia by default. A longtime writer/editor and magazine journalist, she’s working on an outdoors guide for women over 50.

“The house was a fawn-brown color with curved white interior walls and my dead grandmother’s purple velvet drapes still hanging from the curtain rods.

“The house was a fawn-brown color with curved white interior walls and my dead grandmother’s purple velvet drapes still hanging from the curtain rods.

A sentence that grabs you by the heart and hooks you into the narrative is one of the most powerful ways to become one with the pages. It also keeps…
July 25, 2019