By Esther C. Baird, first published in the Ipswich Local News, January 24, 2024 We’ve talked about January before, have we not, Regular Readers? I am aware that I’m not at my most pleasant during this smudge of a month, this dark and cold space where hopes and dreams crawl into the too-early afternoon shadows…
Month: January 2024
Not Dying Down Under
First published in the Ipswich Local News January 11, 2024. In the summer of 2005 a new mom and fairly new writer, emailed Dan MacAlpine, editor of The Beverly Citizen, about running an eight part series featuring a local family moving to Australia for the winter, with a side jaunt to New Zealand. It would chronicle…