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Wit, Wisdom and Wanderings © Now at The Bicycle Exchange, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com,
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Joan Reid is writer, columnist, playwright and public relations specialist whose work has appeared in The Nyack Villager, 201 Magazine, Modern Collage, The Record, The Italian Tribune and Hudson Valley Life. She writes for nonprofits, the healthcare industry and academic institutions. LIFE IS A BIKE© essays, (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize 2001) use the bicycle as a metaphor and can be enjoyed by bike enthusiasts and non-riders as well. Popular essays include: Ten Laws of Bicycling; Born Again Cyclist; Bike-illogical; Joy Ride; Romancing the Bike; Fish Ride; Cycological Youth, and many more, with over 85 titles. A selection of Life is a Bike essays will be published in the forthcoming collection, "Wit, Wisdom and Wanderings." by Editor, James Joyce (The Bike Exchange). The pub date is late 2007. See details on this site. ----------- Her bicycling essays have appeared in: The Bicycle Exchange.com, MasterLink Newsletter (Bicycle Touring Club of North Jersey); Spoke ‘n Wheel Newsletter (North Carolina), Fish on a Bicycle (UK); XL Newsletter (Texas); Veloware Newsletter (Delaware); Mason’s WireDonkey Zine (UK); Total Bike.com; Pascack Press; The Community Life; blog.wenxuecity.com (Chinese site); Geometry.net; MSN Spaces Gokuraku (Japanese site);and have been been broadcasted on Rockland World Radio.com (NY). ----------- Original plays produced for off-off-Broadway include "Soul Painter" "The Waiting Room, The Last Word, and The Jobless Chronicle. Her columns include About Something and Life is a Bike. See the latest entry on this site. Editors, want a fresh humorous column? Contact: joan.reid@yahoo.com * (a.k.a. Gianna Bellofatto, Joan Bellofatto Reid) |
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ABOUT SOMETHING is a quirky humorous philisophical column that is about overheard words on the street...the proverbial 10 pounds you want to shed...the plight of being a lefty...or watching paint dry. Readers will find the columns entertaining with all topics fair game. Essays include: Who is Listening? Happy Non-Birthday Left is Right Whatchamacallit Foley's Follies and more ... About Something has been published in: Our Town - Ohio Rancho Bernardo SUN - CA Our Town - New York Bristol Pilot - PA Gainesville Times- VA Westside Community News - Indiana About Our Town - NJ Diamond Gateway Signature - CA Photo by: Wes Shaw, Words and Pictures, Park Ridge, NJ Contact: joan.reid@yahoo.com |
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ABOUT SOMETHING© Snorting Politics by Joan Bellofatto Reid Repeat after me, I am not a political junkie. I am NOT a political junkie. Am not. Who cares if Hillary will do a Tanya Harding on Obama. I don't care, because I am not a political junkie. Or if McCain mentioned the prospect of a 100 years war in Iraq. A hundred years from now, I most certainly will not be a political junkie. We know Obama is our man, have you listened to his famous speech? Well, I caught just a sound byte, because as you know, I am not a political junkie. My friends and family think I am a politcal junkie, and worse they enable me. They constantly send me emails with links to politcal editorials and articles that sing the praises of Hillary and Obama, or pieces on the latest mudslinging fest among the Dems. I read every word and respond in kind. I go to other sites, sign petitions, voice my concerns, I even joined the "Hillary Team" and now I receive emails from Bill, Chelsea and Hillary. My inbox is filled with enticing subject titles like: Joan, Bill Needs You. How can I tell my former president that I'm really not a junkie? I tried going cold turkey and stop main lining to CNN and MSNBC. But this strategy hasn't worked. There is only one think left to do, and that is to go in the closet. I've been in the closet for the past 48 hours...wait, isn't there a news program called 48 hours? And every hour has 60 minutes...uh-oh, I think I see Mike Wallace who is about to broadcast an interview with Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Plus, there are more primaries ahead, more hand-clapping rodeos, more grand standing, more emails, more politics---okay, I'll admit it. "My name is Joan and I am a political junkie." Welcome, Joan, you have taken your first step. Unfortunately, there is little we can do to help you. Bill boards, radio, TV , newspapers and magazines, ALL media are conspiring against your recovery. There is no ban on politics, no amendment that will prohibit the manufacturing and sale of politics to junkies. The FDA won't protect you. In fact, Big Pharma backs these politicians. It doesn't matter your age, race, ethnicity or gender, everyone is fair game. There's only one last ditch thing to do. It works for politicians, why not try it. Denial. Repeat after me, I am not a political junkie. I am NOT a political junkie. Am not. March 27, 2008 |
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