Bonni Brodnick Blog

W hat's better in life than spending the weekend with best friends? Along with taking long walks, visiting garden centers, driving past windmills and high hedges, we visited an art gallery in town. The owner, a former Goldman Sachs-er, spoke about the new trend in paintings: people are craving beauty and realism.  "Someone mentioned an exhibit at a modern art museum in NYC. One of the pieces portrayed a woman with a long line of you know what trailing out of her you know what.  Is this art?" the owner said.  We need more beauty in our lives.   I say, "Wear mascara." "Refresh your lipstick after every meal."  "Patronize realism."

The Long Island Expressway is no lie at all. Have you ever L.I.E.d on a Friday night? The traffic can be excruciating. I saw the light and just kept driving.

Getting ready to spring clean? If you're trying to decide what to keep and what to chuck, take a peak at my new column on HUFFINGTON POST :

Oh, to be an undergrad. His this link for a fun read in The Cornell Daily Sun by my daughter, Annie. * Go Big Red !

Stop by the Sunday Farmers' Market in front of Antiques & Tools on Westchester Avenue in Pound Ridge, N.Y. on Sunday, April 8, from noon to 4 p.m . I'll be signing books so that you have your very own copy to read about POUND RIDGE PAST, and what people did here once winter finally waned. Read about blueberry picking, pea pod shucking, Victory Gardens, and roosters crowin'. Embrace yesteryear when one of the top-of-mind concerns was trying to figure out how to keep the ice block from melting so fast in the ice box. Oh ... and there's also some cool stuff about Tallulah Bankhead. Ahhh, yes ... those were the days. [Up music.] [Fade in rooster standing on stone wall.] [Up crowing.] [Fade out rooster.] [Fade crowing.] [Pan right to background of The Ridge at Ward Pound Ridge Reservation.] [Fade out landscape scene.] [Fade music.] [Turn your cell phone back on.]

Does your laundry look crinkled, wrinkled, crumbled and rumbled? Learn how to fold it with origami precision in my new piece on Huffington Post : http://www.huffingtonpost. com/bonni-brodnick/children- folding-laundry_b_1393161.html