By Esther Baird First published in the Tri Town Transcript, September 21, 2018 Back-to-school fills me with so many emotions. Not really. Mostly fills me with angst. I recently came across the first back to school column I ever wrote when my eldest daughter had just turned two in 2006. I sent her to preschool…
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Keys to Ski Free
First published in the Tri-Town Transcript, 9/07/18 By Esther Baird Fine. By the time you read this column, summer will be over. But as I am writing this over at our family camp on Lake George, it’s still on. For three more days. It was a busy summer. Besides the tour de’ New England I…
Don’t Forget Your Towel
First Published in News – Tri-Town Transcript – Boxford, MA 8/10/18 By Esther Baird Here it is mid-summer and I am very much ignoring the back to school nonsense that is starting to percolate into the ads. Mostly it’s easy to dismiss them because we’ve spent our summer at our family’s camp on northern Lake…
The Gift of Summer
Originally Published in the Tri-Town Transcript – Boxford, MA June 15, 2018 By Esther C. Baird As I type this I’m a mere day away from summer. I’ve sat through the programs, ceremonies, presentations, and all the pre-final, almost final, and actually for sure, final things. I’ve watched my two little kindergarten-aged girls do bizarre…
Photographic Evidence
First published in Tri-Town Transcript – Boxford, MA Jun 1, 2018 By Esther Baird I’ve had a personal computer in my house since I was about 7, which was around 1980 (don’t do the math, I’m a “mom age”). I was raised to be computer savvy. And unless you have an entire evening don’t ask…
Chasm Climbing Out of May
By Esther Baird. First Published in the Tri Town Transcript May 17, 2018 It’s been a while, dear Regular Reader. We had a host of health stuff sweep through Casa Baird that left me with the clear knowledge that a doctor’s waiting room is where my otherwise winsome, calm, and sweet personality grinds to a cold,…
The Pressure Is On
By Esther C. Baird. First published in the Tri Town Transcript, Apr 6, 2018 Here’s the thing, products that claim they will change your life rarely do. I have a cabinet full of things that have not changed my life. I’m still making lunches and shoveling snow and picking up dog poop, right? Also, I…
Time to Trash Winter
By Esther Baird. First Published in the Tri Town Transcript Mar 21, 2018 Some of you may recall the column I wrote a few years back about the time my husband insisted we get a whole-house generator. I huffed and thought it was a waste of money, but then had to write that I was wrong…
Black Market Lunch
By Esther Baird First Published in the Tri Town Transcript, March 9, 2018 Our two daughters are tween and teenagers. They no longer need help with basic household tasks. And yet, these talented, relatively self-sufficient, smart, socially savvy girls see a lunch box and turn into exhausted balls of existential angst. And, I’m a million…
It’s Virtually Summer
By Esther C. Baird First Published in the Tri Town Transcript. Feb 5, 2018 I’m jogging through Silver Creek, New York. It’s a hot sunny day. The kind of hot where the grass is starting to bake out a little bit and you can smell the pavement expanding and shimmering. It’s an August kind of…