My friend Mike wanted to surprise his girlfriend with a flash mob engagement and roped his favorite event planner (me) into helping him. Sadly, Mother Nature did not cooperate in the weather depa...
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2011/10/hes-so-sweet-here-you-should-see-him.html
I’m more of a Kermit girl than an Elmo girl (I’m old school), but I really, really, really want to see this documentary: I hope all those people who made fun of him in high school are k...
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2011/10/kevin-clash-is-elmo.html
A friend of mine teaches at Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport, CT, one of the poorest cities in our state, if not the US. She is looking for gently used copies of The Hunger Games trilo...
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2011/07/hungry-for-reading.html
This is genius. And fun! (Othello game, aka Reversi, for those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about.)
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-dont-remember-my-othello-board-having.html
This article about the winners of the Google Science Fair has me seeing red. The story is so inspirational (out of 10,000 entries from 91 countries, three teen girls took home trophies for amazi...
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2011/07/sometimes-girls-just-wanna-have-air.html
Last week I was in NYC for one of the conferences my company produces, and our emcee, for the third time in four years, was Steve Thomas . He is one of the smartest, most interesting, interes...
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2011/05/this-time-cheesy-prom-pose-was-my-idea.html
Mom and me, the day of her brother’s wedding, 1968-ish. From my mother I got: my face my love for and ability to cook and entertain my love of reading (although I remember my dad tea...
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2011/05/happy-mothers-day.html
I love stop-motion animation . I love it even more when it is about this sweet book by my friend Julie . This -- or her first Ninja book -- would be a great treat in a young reader's Easte...
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2011/03/she-rocks-with-paper-and-scissors.html
Yes, I am a week late in posting this. To recap: last Friday, after trekking around NYC for two days for work-related meetings/site visits (10 event sites in 2 days -– it can be done, if you ha...
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-got-to-hang-with-cool-kids.html
So, the UGGs were a bust. They arrived yesterday and they were as un-UGGly as the photo but not very comfortable. I returned them to the store, where these Michael Kors babies called my name: ...
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2011/02/uggs-0-michael-kors-1.html
Generally, I am not a fan of UGGs (or the ubiquitous knockoffs, pseudos and wannabes). I think it is because I have big feet and the standard UGG silhouette makes all feet look bigger than they a...
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2011/02/not-ugly-ugg.html
Somewhere tropical. Anywhere tropical. Note the lounge chairs IN the infinity pool. This way Ewan McGregor the waiter can cool his feet while he delivers my frozen daiquiri. It snowed again...
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-want-to-go-there.html
I have not yet caught the IFC original series Portlandia , but my dad sent me the link to this NPR story on it, with specific instructions to “watch the bird video”. It is a hilarious parody...
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-bird-on-block-no-29-to-infinity-and.html
I love this chandelier. Yet am slightly afraid of it. Originally unveiled as part of designer Tony Duquette's one-man exhibition at the LA County Museum of Art in 1952 and then hung above the...
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2011/01/but-watch-your-back-seymour.html
Hartford has had the frozen heavens dump upon us about every five days since the day after Christmas. Yesterday’s special was 4 inches of snow just in time for morning rush hour, followed b...
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2011/01/slip-slidin-away.html
Seven Thirty. Collage on paper, 4″ x 4″, 06.10.10, by Randel Plowman I have long coveted many pieces by Randel Plowman of A Collage A Day . Sadly they are usually scooped up by the time...
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-bird-on-block-no-28-chirps-farewell.html
I can’t decide which is more disturbing: The masks The audience singing along The addition of Santa hats For the original Trololo weirdness (so weird, yet you can’t stop watching) g...
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-trololo.html
Happy Boxing Day! Here in Connecticut we are awaiting the storm that yesterday blanketed the Southeast with a White Christmas. The weather fear-mongers are calling for a blizzard of 12-18” ...
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2010/12/happy-boxing-day-grab-shovel.html
Merry Christmas bloggy friends! I hope your holiday is holly and jolly and free of sniffles. So far mine is holly and jolly but loaded with sniffles and other assorted cold symptoms, but I'm ...
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2010/12/everybody-knows-some-nyquil-and-some.html
Let’s talk about gray hair. I gots me some. I gots me a lot actually. And by gray hairs I don’t mean a bunch of long ones mixed in with the rest of my hair, or in a cool stripe, a la Lily Mun...
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2010/12/getting-in-touch-with-my-roots.html
Why America? Why?
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2010/12/every-dog-has-his-day-and-then-some.html
This is what’s happened since my last post: work, work, a week of travel for work, work, Thanksgiving, recover from food coma, and blam, it’s the end of the month. * * * * * * * * * * I...
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2010/11/maybe-i-should-change-name-of-blog-to.html
The above jack-o-lantern peanut gallery is on the street behind me. They look even better at night all lit up, but of course every time I’ve seen them lit I didn’t have my camera on me....
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2010/10/ten-little-pumpkins-sitting-on-stair.html
Another example of how the Europeans get it right and we don’t. If you teach children to appreciate good food and nutrition, they grow up to be adults who appreciate good food and nutrition. ...
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2010/10/teach-your-children-well.html
(photo taken by me, at Misquamicut State Beach, Rhode Island) Dear, dear summer, why must you go? I am not ready! I need another trip to the beach, more melty ice cream cones, a long bike r...
http://bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/2010/09/holding-on-to-summer.html