By Esther C. Baird/Tri-Town Transcript columnist First Published in the Tri-Town Transcript January 30, 2014 Look, I get that we live north of Boston. The weather is exactly as it should be. And I am trying very hard to be cool with that. Someday it will be May and I will walk Blue Ears without…
Month: January 2014
The Fish Who Lived
By Esther C. Baird/Tri-Town Transcript columnist First Published in the Tri-Town Transcript January 17, 2014 Regular Readers may have caught the line in my last column about a fish tank a certain unprepared parent purchased for her daughter at Christmas. I’d done just enough reading about fish tanks, and the crazy nitrogen cycling process, to…
[Road] Tripping Into Winter
By Esther C. Baird/Tri-Town Transcript columnist First Published in the Tri-Town Transcript January 1, 2014 Well it’s January. The lights are still twinkling on many houses, but the Christmas trees are yellowed and the stores are onto Valentine’s Day. The reason for sequins, holiday cookies, and sugar-rimmed cocktails has vanished into the winter mist. The…