I can't help it; I want this (maybe in yellow gold or silver, though). I love a little '90s action, and this is so very Brenda.

Catbird Ear Cuff, $78.

My lovely friend Liz is over on J.Crew's blog wearing their new E. Porselli ballet flats (click here to purchase).

On Sunday night, we were driving home from Connecticut when we saw a very small bird sort of hop-wobbling across the center of the road, maybe with a broken wing, occasionally disappearing for a moment under a passing car.

Yet another "this kind of thing doesn't happen to city girls" moment (up there with the turtle in the backyard, the trees that come crashing down during rainstorms, and oh my god the bugs). Or...if it did happen it'd be a pigeon, not an adorable, tiny fluffball with beautiful black-and-blue feathers. I had a few birds as pets when I was a kid, so I more or less know how to pick up a baby, and so that's what I did: scooped it out of the road and brought it back to our car. Then we sat there with it for a minute, trying to figure out what to do.

We had no idea.

To me it looked like its wings had been clipped, and it was a really gorgeous bird: I worried that it was someone's pet - a parakeet, maybe, or a budgie? - that had gotten out. Or maybe it was a baby who'd been abandoned by its parents. Or maybe it was hurt and would have ended up just sitting there in the center of the road until a car made a direct hit; I didn't know.