A Bird In My Hand

In honor of the title of my blog, I share this little video for your watching pleasure. It's a friend of a friend, so I know, somehow, we're kindred spirits. Enjoy! PS. - if you can't see the who...

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My cat, Sylvester, is having...issues. Sylvester, in calmer days... You may recall that we adopted him from a shelter at the advanced age of  11 1/2, separated from his brother, (his life...

http://abirdinmyhand.blogspot.com/2010/04/issues.html

Happy Easter! For me, Easter has always been about flowers, spring, the birth of new possibilities. This year, with all of our rain, our flower season has been pretty nice so far. All the t...

http://abirdinmyhand.blogspot.com/2010/04/spring-has-sprung-and-happy-easter.html

See, this is what I'm talking about. Have you ever had one of those months where not only your sleep, but your short term memory starts to go? When you go on overload and start tilting like a sp...

http://abirdinmyhand.blogspot.com/2010/03/mea-culpa-translation-doh.html

In case anyone wondered if I had fallen into some old well that was hidden in my path and was patiently awaiting rescue, without my computer, or means of communicating with you to explain why I ...

http://abirdinmyhand.blogspot.com/2010/03/in-moment.html

It's raining again. Here in Southern California, we need the rain badly so there's no complaining about it, unless you live in La Canada, where the hillsides are sliding down because of the te...

http://abirdinmyhand.blogspot.com/2010/02/rain.html

If you can, please ignore the storesfronts and the streetlamps and the pedantic clumbsiness of this photograph. Instead, if you will, notice the beam of sunlight streaking between those two ...

http://abirdinmyhand.blogspot.com/2010/02/dear-renee.html

What is it? 1) Microscopic salt crystals. 2) A  Hollywood sound stage in a futuristic saga? 3) A Fly's POV of a landing strip atop a grey-haired man. 4) None of the above. If you an...

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1.Did you watch the Superbowl? 2. Were you rooting for New Orleans? (I love an underdog!) Or, 3. Are you female and you only watched it because it was on every television in the house? ...

http://abirdinmyhand.blogspot.com/2010/02/were-you-watching.html

It's January (okay, almost February.) But still. This is what's sprouted in my garden in the last week. I know in many parts of the world, it's snowing.  Miserable. Cold. Icy. And I show yo...

http://abirdinmyhand.blogspot.com/2010/01/perfect.html

Awww. So cute. Right? Fuzzy little grey squirrel. What's he eating anyway? A nut? Sure. Nuts abound here in our neighborhood. Fifty years ago, it used to be a walnut grove. Walnut trees ...

http://abirdinmyhand.blogspot.com/2010/01/eenie-meenie-minie-mo.html

Even if we can only do something small, that small bit becomes something larger that carries our prayers and hopes with it.

http://abirdinmyhand.blogspot.com/2010/01/not-forgotten.html

What if we all just quit banking with them? What if we just stopped using these loan sharks' freaking credit cards and paid cash? What if we let them sink as they've done to us? What if ...

http://abirdinmyhand.blogspot.com/2010/01/imagine.html

CYBERMATION. n. cy-ber-ma'-shun - facts perported on the world wide web; 2. v. broadly : the validation of facts through cyber-means. I'm inventing a new word. (At least, I think I am.) ...

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(Part II) Tucson was amazing and seeing my sister, Anne, again was so fun.  But, then, we were off to New Mexico to accomplish the real reason we packed ourselves up in our car and drove 900...

http://abirdinmyhand.blogspot.com/2010/01/our-christmas-vacation-part-deux.html

Helllloooooooo! Yes, I know it's been a long time, (if anyone noticed) but like so many of you, I was off doing the Christmas holidays with family. I hope your Christmas or holiday was wonderfu...

http://abirdinmyhand.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-we-did-on-our-christmas-vacation.html

 Merry Christmas to all of my wonderful blogging friends!   You all have been one of my best and most surprising gifts this year.  Wouldn't it be fun if we could all get together and  ...

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                                               This Christmas Angel is for you, sweet Renee. Please know that you are in my thoughts and pr...

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Do you make resolutions? New Years or otherwise? How do you feel about them? Do you find yourself let down at the end of the year when you don't achieve your goals? Or does your list make you wo...

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TAP, TAP, TAP... KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK... HIGHER SELF: HELLO?? IS ANYONE IN THERE? Lower Self (er, me): Oh. You talkin' to me? HIGHER SELF: UH, ACTUALLY, YES. I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET YOUR A...

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This was my day yesterday. This will probably be my day today. But, hey. Someday, that damn flower has to bloom to give me somewhere to sit. Right? Peace, Barbara

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To all of you who have sweetly stopped by my DH's blog (see below) and/or became a follower, thank you so much! I love you guys! You really made his week. Now, if you'll excuse me, I just hav...

http://abirdinmyhand.blogspot.com/2009/12/thank-you.html

Are you a STAR WARS fan? Or maybe your significant other is. Or your son. All I know is that pretty every man who's lived in the last three decades has been touched by George Lucas's Ode to Jos...

http://abirdinmyhand.blogspot.com/2009/11/did-you-know.html

My honey and I are cozying up, baking pies, turkey and the fixings. (The cats? They're just cozying up...) But wanted to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving before the day passes us by and to le...

http://abirdinmyhand.blogspot.com/2009/11/happy-thanksgiving.html

Ask anyone. We're the theater family. My kids were going to theater long before any of their friends. They, in turn, have dragged their friends into that wonderful fray, and even some family. O...

http://abirdinmyhand.blogspot.com/2009/11/its-in-dna.html