By Esther C. Baird, first published in the Ipswich Local News, November 3, 2023 I’ve written this column before. It’s almost unfathomable that I’m writing it again. How many times can one get lost in their own backyard while also involving local waterways? Regular readers will recall I’ve washed up on a beach and also…
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Blowing Through March
by Esther C. Baird, first published in the Ipswich Local News, March 30, 2023 Well, it’s March. The season of sand. Road crews scatter it like tiny beaches around our inland towns to deal with that ever-tricky late-season snow. The sand — maybe more than the snow — threatens to break me. Perhaps in solidarity, our snow blower,…
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 . ….