First published in the Tri Town Transcript Jan 30, 2017 By Esther C. Baird One of the things that happens when you are part of a church, or any community group, is that people get sick and people have babies. Sometimes people have a baby and then get sick. Or, sometimes they have a baby…
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Here There Be Needles
First published in the Tri Town Transcript Jan 16, 2017 By Esther C. Baird A few years back, I wrote about our eldest daughter getting her ears pierced when she turned 10. Actually, as regular readers may recall, it was a few months before her real birthday in order to surprise her. This Christmas, which…
Resolutions That Won’t Shatter
First published in the Tri Town Transcript, Jan 4, 2017 By Esther C. Baird You know that last week of school before the holidays. The kids have class parties every other hour and subsist mostly on frosted cookies and marshmallows. They are overly tired and hyper, which only serves to highlight that their parents are…
The Perfect Flawed Card
First published in the Tri Town Transcript Dec 8, 2016 By Esther C. Baird Regular readers may recall that, a few years ago, I suggested we have a Tri-Town-wide bonfire where we’d toss our shimmery, smiling holiday cards into the flames and be done with it. It’d be a community-wide holiday card cease and desist….
Play-ing it Calm and Cool
First published in the Tri Town Transcript Nov 19, 2016 By Esther C. Baird It’s elementary school play season at Casa Baird. Both of our girls have always been part of the play, but this year, our fourth-grade daughter went from her previous obscure role as munchkin number three to the co-lead in the children’s…
Reuniting the past and the present
First Published in the Tri Town Transcript Nov 7, 2016 By Esther C. Baird One day, when I was a senior in college, I watched two older women outside my apartment run towards each other. They squealed and hugged and jumped. My friend breezed by and laughed. “Look, there’s my mom! She’s visiting for homecoming…
Like Mother, Like Daughter
First Published in the Tri-Town Transcript Oct 24, 2016 By Esther C. Baird A long, long time ago, in a town far, far away (Beverly), I wrote about my brief fling as a soccer mom. Our eldest daughter, then 5, enrolled in the town league. She was little and cute and wore pink shin guards….
How to ‘Bear’ Back to School
First published in the Tri Town Transcript Sep 27, 2016 By Esther C. Baird Back to school is a tangled up time of year. What I want this time of year is to have it both ways. I want summer and school, freedom and schedule. Spontaneous lunches and bagged, home-made lunches. OK scratch that. I…
Designs on Decorating the Kitchen
First published in the Tri-Town Transcript on Aug 24, 2016 By By Esther C. Baird We recently decided to redecorate our kitchen and family room. Our current yellow was tired and increasingly sullen instead of bright. We wanted to choose fun, new colors and get fun, new furniture. So. Much. Fun.
Deep Lake Diving ‘Poparazzi’ Style
First Published in the Tri-Town Transcript Aug 12, 2016 By Esther C. Baird It’s currently 95 as I type this, and even my Grande Iced Americano is not making a dent in the heat. But I wouldn’t trade it for anything. Summer is the land of the happy and unscheduled. We’ve been spending much of…