By Esther Baird First Published in the Beverly Citizen, March 21, 2007 Well, fellow Beverlians, this is my last column for a month or two. Most of you know by this point that I’m pregnant and due right about when this column is scheduled to be published. What you don’t know is that at the…
Month: March 2007
Which Duty Calls
By Esther C. Baird Published in the Boston Parent’s Paper Magazine in March 2007: I’d never been called for jury duty. Probably because I’d moved every two years since I was 18. So I knew it was simply a matter of time before the system caught up with me in my stable Northshore existence. And…
Vermont Invasion Yields Chills and Thrills
By Esther Baird First Published in the Beverly Citizen, March 07, 2007 My friend pulled into our driveway in the largest non-commercial vehicle I’d ever seen — some sort of Suburban/Expedition/Destroyer. “What is this?” I gawked. “Yeah,” my friend sighed. “I wanted a sturdy rental . . . but I didn’t mean this.” We were…