By Esther C. Baird First Published in the Tri-Town Transcript, Jan 19, 2018 I’m sitting here wearing a tank top and flip flops and drinking ice water. And yes, it’s cold out. Actually, you may remember this day: It’s 6 degrees outside with a foot of totally frozen snow blowing around like fine grain sandpaper…
Category: The Baird Facts
Can I Get An Amen?
By Esther C. Baird First posted in the Tri-Town Transcript Dec 26, 2017 This is not the perfect Christmas. I make mistakes. I’m not terribly relaxed. Also my cards are so, so, very late. But each Christmas I am reminded that the first Christmas set the stage for a time when stress and chaos and…
All Things Bright and Edible
First Published in the Tri Town Transcript Nov 24, 2017 By Esther C. Baird Regular Readers, it’s been awhile, but today let’s return to that always popular topic: Moose, our Bernese mountain dog puppy. He looks all grown up now at around 100 pounds, but I assure you he is not.
Frontal Lobe Obstacles
First Published in the Tri Town Transcript Nov 10, 2017 By Esther C. Baird The night before the storm that blew the Tri-Towns off the map was lovely, with no wind. I know because we held our first teenage party for our eldest daughter’s eighth-grade class in our yard. Because we have the standard Boxford…
The Timing of the Teeth
First Published in the Tri Town Transcript Nov 1, 2017 By Esther C. Baird My daughter stood next to me, obviously agitated, as I typed on my computer. She’s 10 but she can hold a stare and, with it, a feeling. In this case the feeling I felt burrowing into my brain was one of unmet expectations…
A Letter to October
First Published in the Tri Town Transcript Oct 12, 2017 By Esther C. Baird So it’s October. We’re back into the swing of things now. We make lunches and we drive. We figure out how to be in three places at once. It’s tricky, but we’ve got this. It no longer wakes us up at…
Shiver Me Pink Timbers
By Esther Baird First Published in the Tri Town Transcript Sep 29, 2017 This, dear Regular Readers, is a cautionary tale. It began when we ran into a group of friends this summer. One husband relayed how he had a nasty bout of poison ivy, everyone murmured sympathies. Except me. I took a not-subtle step…
The Unplanned Summer
First published in the Tri Town Transcript Sep 13, 201 By Esther C. Baird Well it’s been awhile Regular Reader, I hope your summers were full of sand, sun and drinks with little umbrellas in them. Our late June and early July were packed full of the standard Casa Baird road-trips, lake visits and s’mores….
Tossing the Time Machines
First published in the Tri Town Transcript Aug 4, 2017 By Esther C. Baird I interrupt this regular scheduled column, which would have been a variation on the theme, “Moose the Puppy Who Eats Everything,” to draw your attention to this breaking news from Casa Baird. For the first time since we moved to Boxford…
Moose Poop and that New Car Smell
First published in the Tri Town Transcript Jul 3, 2017 By Esther C. Baird Regular readers may recall that a few years ago we brought the Snow Crusher into our family. It was a black Mini Cooper Countryman that was designed to go fast and perform well in blizzards. It was a great car… when our…