My Luv Affair with the World of Words

BARRY LEE COYNE is a 1940s product of urban Brooklyn in the days when trolleys sped by his front window and the milkman delivered to the front door metal box. Back then an ice cream cone was only 5 cents. He grew up as the first grandkid living with five grown-ups. Each had their own influence. Words soon became his playthings. As Lee matured, he became a writer and educator. In 1962, he served as a UN press intern. A year later he landed a job as the first white reporter on a leading Black weekly. He moved on to become an editor of a statewide labor union newspaper. Changing careers, Lee morphed into a retro therapist licensed in five states and taught college in NYC and Metro DC. He pioneered the use of health teleconferences for shut in elders in Queens, NY. Going west to Oregon, he turned to planning community events honoring Mandela, Gandhi and Chavez among others. He also won several poetry contests.

Today he hosts four cable TV talk shows that feature non celebs sharing their wisdom on life's hidden treasures. Now a widower, he loves to travel and attend plays and concerts. Forever upbeat!