First published in the Tri Town Transcript Nov 5, 2018 By Esther C. Baird Every year, despite feeling, as Regular Readers know, a teeny bit resentful that summer is over, I try to be a good school mom. I sign the forms and attend the teacher conferences and send out class emails about fundraisers. This…
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Survival of the Iciest
First Published in the Tri-Town Transcript February 26, 2015 Well, Regular Readers, what’s really left to say at this point? Target is selling flip flops, and Oreos is marketing yellow ‘spring’ cookies at Stop-n-Shop. The nation doesn’t get us. Unless they plan to start stocking snow blowers instead of spring fashion tights, and remake Oreos…
I’ll Take The [Snow] Rake, You Take The Jeans
First Posted in the Tri-Town Transcript February 5, 2015 So, I guess we’re not skipping the ‘snow’ part of winter this year. It was starting to look that waybut things went all blizzardy on us and now we’ll have snow piles until July. Except of course the snow on our roof. It will melt with…
Let the Heating Wars Begin
By Esther C. Baird/tritown@wickedlocal.com. First Published in the Tri-Town Transcript October 24, 2013 Boxford Topsfield Middleton — Oh, New England. You plague me so. Just when things get lovely, just when I think there is no place this beautiful, just when walking Blue Ears becomes magical and not full body combat against bugs . ….