Bonnie Kogos is from New York City with a background rich in family values. Encouragement from her parents enabled her to seek boldness and a sense of adventure. As a result, Bonnie grew up traveling throughout the world, writing stories about the places she visited and the people she met. After graduating from Radcliffe Publishing Procedures Program, she worked at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in the traditional publishing world.

Then Bonnie had the opportunity to live in the Caribbean with her fiancé, on the Yacht Quadriga, a beautiful 40 ft. yawl. Sailing from St. Thomas all the way down to Grenada, including more than 26 island stops, Bonnie honed her skills in sailing, staying afloat, alive, and well, and expanding her knowledge base of the islands.

Applying what she learned about the Caribbean, Bonnie returned to NYC to happily become a busy travel agent, organizing business conferences, family travel, and arranging honeymoons to the Caribbean and throughout the world. This has kept her busy, committed and grateful! One of her clients was Bob Hope and his Christmas TV shows. Her photographs prove this!

Bonnie is the daughter of the late author and publisher, Fred Kogos, who owned the Kogos Publication Company. The Kogos Company edited and published monthly magazines and 50 textbooks dedicated to apparel manufacturers from around the world. Bonnie's involvement included editing and typing her father's many well-known books curating the Yiddish Language. One is 1001 Yiddish Proverbs and another is From Schmear to Eternity, both available today on Amazon!

For thirty, happy years, Bonnie has been busy writing her newspaper column, Window Seat, for The Sudbury Star and other regional nothern Ontario newspapers owned by Postmedia out of Toronto. She writes on all kinds of subjects, with humor and keen wit.

Do connect with her at linkedin.com/bonniekogos.

Photo: Carol Gimbel