First published in the Chronicle and the Transcript Nov. 18, 2020 It’s been a trying time Regular Readers. And I don’t only mean because we’re both in a pandemic and a political existential crisis (maybe over by the time you read this?). But also, here in early November, we are already keenly aware that winter…
Category: The Baird Facts
All the Home’s a Stage
So I have some news Regular Readers. We’re moving. But, just up the road to another Boxford home, which is admittedly crazy. But you don’t know true crazy until you’ve been staged. “Staging involves giving potential buyers a vision for what the home could be for them,” our realtor explained. It also involves a small truckload…
The Dinner Fortress Has Fallen
So it’s October. My back-to-normal-for-2020 schedule these days is: work in the morning at my church office, zip home, prep dinner (since my dinner fairies are AWOL), then go grab our two girls from school at their earlier COVID-19 release time, before the evening shenanigans kick in. Side note: the dinner fairies… they stink. Global…
Faked You Out
By Esther C. Baird First published in the Chronicle & Transcript Sep 23, 2020 Like everyone out there, we do a lot of our shopping online these days. It’s faster, easier and pandemic-friendly. Unless we’re trying to get back-to-school clothes for teenagers who must try things on or their lives will be ruined. Fortunately, that’s…
Back to School 2020
First published in the Chronicle & Transcript, September 9, 2020 By Esther C. Baird Well it’s back to school season. Whatever that means. I have friends who are homeschooling, friends who are sending their kids to schools that are fully remote and friends who are using a hybrid model. I have friends who are teachers…
My baby she can drive my car
By Esther Baird First published in the Chronicle & Transcript Aug 25, 2020 Hey there Regular Readers, it’s been a while. We’ve been living out of state at our family camp in the Adirondacks the last three months and basically staying off the grid. I’m emerging now both because the real world beckons with school…
Artful Insights
First published in the Chronicle and the Transcript May 2020 (Note; due to technical difficulties this is the unedited version, the edited version appeared in print only for this piece.) Regular Readers may have noticed from past columns that we have an ‘art block’ on most days during quarantine. And while we are not hosting…
A break during quarantine
By Esther C. baird First published in the Tri-Town Transcript Just typing away over here in week six of quarantine … which some of you may know better as April vacation week. Some of my friends are excited about it because either they work for a school or their kids have not clicked with remote…
Finding Kindness in Quarantine
First published in print on Friday, April 17 in the Chronicle & Transcript. This version below is the unedited version due to technical difficulties getting the paper version posted to the newspaper website. ***** I’m typing this near the end of week four, staring at, I guess, at least three more weeks, though almost certainly…
Llamas in the time of corona
Well … quite obviously, regular reader, I am at home. Actually, as I type this, it’s my birthday. We ordered takeout pizza from California Pizza Kitchen which offered gloved, curb-side pick-up … until it didn’t. We were among the last customers, on the last night it was open. Do we know how to celebrate or…