Ed Lowe For 28 years, readers of Newsday, the nation's sixth largest daily newspaper, have enjoyed the skill, humanity and humor of columnist Ed Lowe’s writing, whether his stories are about himself or about the rest of us. For the last 18 of those years, live audiences, as well, have delighted in the wit and wisdom Ed Lowe has gleaned from his own life as, "a recovering Irish Catholic, a recovering ex-husband, a recovering ex-teacher, grandfather, son, journalist, consumer, friend, automobile operator, homophobe, dinner speaker and parent of teenagers." Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Newsday’s Ed Lowe now would be in his 30th year as a junior high school English teacher, had he not run away in the summer of 1969 to join the media circus, becoming a reporter for a daily newspaper, The Suffolk Sun. The Sun promptly set, and Newsday hired Ed Lowe as a reporter. He became a featured columnist in 1976 and took such satisfaction from the job that he never sought another. He has co-authored two books with New York psychotherapist Stanley Siegel ("The Patient Who Cured His Therapist" and "Uncharted Lives," both published by Dutton/Plume) and edited two collections of his own stories and essays: "Ed Lowe’s Long Island," and "Not As I Do -- A Father’s Report." Ed Lowe serves as a regular panelist on "Father Tom and Friends, " a weekly Cablevision show produced by Msgr. Tom Hartman of Long Island’s TeLIcare Channel. He also hosts a one-on-one interview program for TeLIcare. Ed Lowe has entertained and inspired members of business, trade, professional and religious associations and gatherings of engineers, dentists, nurses, accountants, therapists, police officers, lawyers, judges and inmates. He has emceed charity events for the Heart Association and The Heart Fund, the Diabetes Association, the March of Dimes, the Associations for Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s Disease, Leukemia, Arthritis, the Association for Help to Retarded Children, and the AARP, to name a few. He has keynoted staff conference days for 34 school districts and amused and enlightened statewide associations of education administrators for business, personnel and curriculum. A former teacher at both the high school and college levels, Ed Lowe has delivered college and high school commencement addresses and appeared onstage at comedy clubs. back to our guests ... Print-Version