OK, time for New Year’s resolutions. Hmmm, let me think while I eat these double-stuffed Oreos. Oh . . .sorry, I didn’t mean I was thinking about resolutions for myself. I plan on eating whatever I want and wearing my most comfy clothes, but then I guess it’s time to let you all know that…
Category: The Baird Facts
Lo, the Fairies Led the Three Snowmen
By Esther C. Baird First Published in the Beverly Citizen, December 21, 2006 Well it’s Dec. 12 and I’m writing this beneath a grove of palm trees. The warm sand of Florida’s eastern coast is a few yards away — because no matter what commercials show, taking your laptop onto a beach is a recipe…
Beverly Holiday House Secrets
By Esther C. Baird First published in the Beverly Citizen, December 07, 2006 I realize that there are many stressful things during the holidays: Gift lists, family road trips, children’s Christmas programs and what have you. But one thing that really consumes me is the house on route 62 just before 128 with the zillions…
Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire – Maybe
By Esther C. Baird First Published in the Beverly Citizen, November 22, 2006 This year we are hosting Thanksgiving. In 10 years of marriage we’ve never hosted so we are long overdue this responsibility. The upside is that we finally get to use our good china and cook in our newly remodeled kitchen. The downside…
Wearing a Vest Has Her Down
By Esther C. Baird/ First Published in the Beverly Citizen, November 9, 2006 The house I grew up in, outside of Philadelphia, was built in 1773. And while electricity and plumbing made their way in, modern heat did not. We heated exclusively by wood stove. As a child, one of my regular chores was to go…
A Harried Mom’s Wine
By Esther C. Baird First published in the Beverly Citizen, October 26, 2006 Errands. With a toddler. Sigh. I try to go into a zen-like state for daily shopping occurrences otherwise I’d go crazy. Eighty percent of every errand is spent trying to get my 2-year-old to hold my hand, to not touch, to not take…
Turning One a New Leaf Via the Road Not Taken
By Esther C. Baird First Published in the Beverly Citizen, October 12, 2006 On Saturday we drove to Mount Washington for the day. The foliage reports for New Hampshire were great, and the summit of Mount Washington sounded rugged and adventurous, the perfect autumnal day trip. Both I-93 and I-95 go to Mount Washington. All the…
The Skunks Are Revolting
By Esther C. Baird First Published in the Beverly Citizen, September 28, 2006 Let’s discuss the skunks in Beverly shall we? I’ve long wondered if our city isn’t, perhaps, a Mecca of sorts for our striped friends. At least twice a week I am overcome by the eye-burning, throat scalding scent of fresh, closer-than-I-prefer, skunk….
Sometimes, a box is more than a box
By Esther C. Baird First published in the Beverly Citizen, September 14, 2006 Both my daughter and I are going ‘back to school’ this week. More accurately, I am going ‘back’ to chip away at my Masters and she is simply ‘going’ since it will be her first foray into preschool. We both will be…
An Ode to Play Doh
By Esther C. Baird First Published in the Beverly Citizen. June 1, 2006. We’ve had a week of June now and it’s started off soggy, but I’m hopeful. At least we are done with May when we squished around like so many human raisins, wet and shriveled and increasingly crazed to the point of madness….