New Member Profile: Bonnie Losick

Bonnie Losick: "It's only too late if you don't start now!"

(6/15/2010) That's what bookkeeper Bonnie Losick said to herself when she went out on her own seven years ago. She has no regrets. 

Bonnie has worked with sixty or so different clients over the years. She works with solopreneurs and private individuals as well as small businesses. Bonnie has built up the technological capability to provide remote services, and hopes to expand this area of her business. She's working with two of her clients this way already. She also volunteers with Franklin County Home Care Corp., and provides service and advice to elders who need help managing personal affairs such as paying bills, sorting out junk mail and avoiding predatory "scam artists".

Bonnie grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey. She attended the University of Wisconsin, graduating with an undergraduate degree in Philosophy. She moved out to the West Coast, and wound up racing with the US Whitewater Team in Switzerland in 1973. Her team of six women and men came in second in the C2-Mixed Downriver Canoe event. During her river running years Bonnie brought a unique type of kayak mitten to market, naming her business “The Bonnie Hot Pogie” and trademarking the name “pogie”. These types of mittens are still known as “pogies" to this day.

She worked for a kayak manufacturing company in Kentucky, then came to New England, where she designed and built a passive solar house from scratch in Stowe, Vermont with her husband, and had a baby, while taking accounting courses at UVM, leading to the equivalent of a second bachelors degree. Bonnie moved to Greenfield in 1987, where she worked as a staff accountant at Bete Fog Nozzle, then worked as a recruiter for a few years. She moved into sales at Channing L. Bete, before being drawn back into bookkeeping, and eventually going it alone. Bonnie loves the variety of work she has, loves bookkeeping and loves her clients. She says, "It’s a great, immensely satisfying business."

Outside of work fitness and outdoor sports are a passion for Bonnie. She climbed Mount Tupungato in Chile, one of the highest mountains in South America (21555 ft), with friends about ten years back, and still kayaks. Bonnie regularly takes an older Olympic flatwater racing kayak, that is a tippy 17 feet long and 18 inches wide, from Barton's Cove up to the French King Bridge and back. She also goes for 100 mile bicycle rides, logging over 3000 miles last year.

Bonnie A. Losick
P.O. Box 46
Greenfield MA 01302

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Phone: 413-772-2491