Bonni Brodnick Blog

  Photo Courtesy of the Author (Guess which one is me.) Come with me on my multi-part journey about life with  double vision/strabmismus/diplopia.  To most, it would be like living with a hangover or stepping off The Zipper. For me, a veteran of all that, seeing double is just a regular day. To read more,  "Part I: Seeing With Cross Eyes: My World in Double Vision."

                                                        Photo by James on Unsplash I was giving a talk on my book, P ound Ridge Past , to a group of sixth graders. After the presentation and Q&A, a student came over to ask me a question.   “Can you help me think of an idea for my book? I want to write a novel, and I thought I’d do it over winter vacation.”   “ Write an entire novel in one week?” I asked. “Yep,” he responded. What a feat! I came up with a few ideas: He wore blue sneakers, a blue T-shirt, and blue jeans. Maybe on the color blue? Or what about stretching what he did over vacation into chapters? “I think I like the blue idea,” he said. I’ve been writing a novel for years. Is there something about being a sixth-grader, full of energy and promise? “Good luck!” I said encouragingly to the young writer.

  A piece accepted into a publication is always a good feeling. Here it is in Medium's "ILLUMINATION." Gingerbread House on Steroids Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Fallingwater” Sets the Standard Photo by Melodie Dearden Gingerbread houses never looked this good. Forget using M&M’s, mini marshmallows, and gumdrops for the roof; Skittles for the window frames, and candy canes for the shutters. So  meh . Culinary artist Melodie Dearden and her friend Brenton, an architect. knocked it out of the park with their re-creation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s “ Fallingwater ." Photo by  Yuhan Du  on  Unsplash ------->   R E A D.  M O R E . . . \