Bonni Brodnick Blog

                                                                                                          Photo: Bonni Brodnick "Razzmatazz" is not a word one would use for Edward Hopper. This American painter is far from it. Instead, Hopper's work holds a spareness that bespeaks simplicity, isolation, and solitude.  His Cape Cod oeuvre is mostly from Truro, the stretch of land between Provincetown and Wellfleet. It is here that Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 - May 15, 1967)   first visited in 1930, and painted forty of his eighty-four summers. Over the decades, and as his work developed, he...

In this country, tens of thousands of people are coming down with Coronavirus  daily . Cases continue to surge in the south and the midwest. One expert said, "The idea that every mayor, every governor, every local official, should figure out their own pandemic response and what to do and not to do is crazy." There's no leadership. I'm freaked out. While COVID rages,   I quarantine as much as possible. T his is the summer I'm home.  A lot.  I had to do something that would cheer me up. Make me feel good about being inside. So I decided to change my living room with summery pillow cases as a distraction from the raging pandemic.  I checked Etsy, thinking that would be the perfect place to start. V oilà ... found MyPillowStudio.   Just stuff your old pillows inside whatever cases you choose.   Here is the sassy combo I came up with:                           ...

"Do you think we're compatible?"  This is what I'll ask my husband at any time, out of the blue,  because I marvel  that we've been together for 34 years.  But I never imagined that when we got married  we'd be stuck inside together for 90+ days straight.  Alone!  During the quarantine, he's commandeered the dining room with three computers and a printer,  and I'm upstairs in my office.  We hardly see one another during the day.  Then at dinnertime, we'll watch a movie, laugh, and sit very closely on the sofa.  "Do you think we're compatible?"  Yes. I do.