About me
I’m a journalist, freelance writer and co-author of books and numerous magazine and newspaper articles on health-related and environmental topics (one of which, an expose of the spraying of airline cabins with a toxic pesticide on international flights, written in collaboration with my sister Linda Bonvie, led to the practice being halted by more than 20 countries). I’ve also written hundreds of opinion pieces (both serious and humorous) that have appeared on the op-ed and commentary pages of newspapers of all sizes, including The Philadelphia Inquirer; The Record of Bergen County, N.J), The Berkshire Eagle, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; and the Orlando Sentinel, with 50 of them republished in the form of an essay collection entitled “Repeat Offenders” (Divertir Publishing, 2014).
As a print journalist, I have served in various capacities, including reporter, copy editor, managing editor and bureau chief for both dailies and weeklies in the Northeast, and have worked since 2018 as a reporter and copy editor for the Pine Barrens Tribune, a free weekly that covers about a dozen municipalities in Burlington County, N.J.
My writing experience has also included doing a twice-weekly blog entitled “Food Identity Theft” for the Washington, D.C. nonprofit Citizens for Health, a weekly real-estate advertorial for The Press of Atlantic City (retiring in January 2022 after a 26-month stint), and working as a copywriter (both as a freelancer and an employee) for dozens of ad agencies and design studios throughout southern New England the mid-Atlantic region as well as a writer and editor for companies such as Northeast Utilities.