Bonni Brodnick Blog

By BONNI BRODNICK G irls, girls, girls! Silhouette , a store exclusively for girls in the‘tweens and teens zone, has officially opened on Westchester Avenue. Along with offering great-priced jewelry, hip scarves, funky T-shirts, swanky Betsyville bags, and bangles galore, they also host birthday parties. While most of Pound Ridge is a ghost town at this time of year, Silhouette is party-popping with activity. Themes range from “Darling Diva Party” to “Divine Diva Party” and “V.I.P. Diva Exclusive.” Don’t lift a finger as they help you create your own theme from a list of à la carte options like 60s Mod, 70s Disco, and 80s Glam. The happening scene includes hairstyling, mini-manicures, make-up, and music. They’ll even provide food and paper goods (you bring the B-day cake). Ella Weinstein , a rising second grader at Pound Ridge Elementary School, wrote “Talk of the Town” with the following review of a swell girly birthday party she had just attended: “Hi! I spent two hours at Silhouette...

August 24, 2009 "TALK OF THE TOWN" By Bonni Brodnick S ixteen years ago, I wrote “The First Day of Kindergarten” for “The Bedford-Pound Ridge Record-Review ” (the original name of our town paper). The story was written on the eve of my 4-year old son starting kindergarten at Pound Ridge Elementary School. The next day would be his first bus ride to school, his first day at the “big boy” school, and his first meal in a cafeteria. I wondered how he would get through this without Mommy. All summer we had been preparing for the moment. My son is now a 20-year old senior at college. Tonight, I am writing on the eve of my daughter leaving home and joining her brother as a freshman at the same upstate New York university. Her departure, too, has been a moment for which we’ve been preparing, especially since it would signify my new perch on an empty nest. Whether your children are leaving for their first day of kindergarten or first semester of college, the reality of new er...

By BONNI BRODNICK T he Lightning struck last weekend when this talented summer-travel baseball team hit it right out of the ballpark. After wining their division (Gold Division) 7-4, they went on to play New Fairfield (Red Division Champs) for the 2009 Summer Westchester/Putnam Baseball Association 11 & Under Championship. The Lightening aced it with a winning score of 5-4, and distinguishing themselves as the only Bedford/Pound Ridge summer-travel baseball team to go undefeated. The team then went on to win the Championship with a stunning 22-0! Our Boys of Summer include Lucas Beni , Sean Fopeano , John Harrington , Robert Lichtenberger , Emmett Robin , Shawn Walsh and Aaron Winkler from Pound Ridge, along with Owen Azrak , Connor Banford , Charlie Carpenter , Sean New , Chris Stern and Will Wortmann from Bedford. Congratulations to Coaches Skip Carpenter and Vic Wortmann for bringing The Lightning to a great season closer. H ey, kiddos! You have one more week to catch up b...

By BONNI BRODNICK I s the heat and humidity making you crabby? Are you balking at people talking (loudly) on their cell phones at the pool? Or irritated when you’re trying to tell someone something and they can’t stop to listen because they’re text-messaging? Are you slightly ticked when one of your progeny asks to you leave the room and shut the door because it’s time to SKYPE a special friend on an internship in Los Angeles? In simple terms, are you a fuddy-duddy?? To my horror, my college-bound children called me one. (When does school start again?) Their benevolence had me pondering reduplicated phrases, a term for perky duplicated nouns or verbs that form new idioms, like chop-chop; choo-choo; knock-knock; rah-rah; chic-chic; hanky-panky, bling-bling, yada-yada. (If you’ve got more, send them to towntalk@optonline.net.) So call me a teeny-weeny goody-goody, but I am not a fuddy duddy. Okey-dokey? C ongratulations to two Pound Ridgers who competed in the Lake Placid Ironman Triathl...

By BONNI BRODNICK W here’s George? At dinner parties across Pound Ridge last Saturday night, this was the question. If you’re wondering where all of your money goes, check out www.where’sGeorge.com to track your dough as it circulates around town, the country and the world. You simply go to the website home page, enter the denomination, series (year) and serial number, as well as your ZIP code, then hit “submit.” To keep the trail going, write “where’sGeorge.com” on the bill, spend it, then track it, baby. Once a bill is registered, the site reports where the bill goes, the distance traveled between locations, and any comments from finders. As of press time, Where’s George? tracked over 156 million bills totaling more than $845 million. Now that’s a lot of money to keep track of. S peaking of weird/strange/fascinating/why am I doing this? websites, you might want to take a look at www.facesaerch.com (that’s not a typo). Here you can search for all of the faces of anyone you’ve ever kno...