by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 7, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
A friend who’d read some of the chatter on my Facebook page in regards to little girls and princess marketing, and 13 year-old daughters, their feminist mothers and makeup noted with surprise that people sound angry. She has a princess-loving little girl...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 10, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
I love the way this image captures the slip-slide of an elementary school concert. Or perhaps, it’s how I feel much of the time, like the kid with the black and the white sock. I’m a bit rumpled. Speaking of the elementary school, there’s a goal to...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 12, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
The one piece of twin advice I ever sought out—not for myself—turns out, I’m told, to be very good advice indeed: prepare to spend the early nursing months shirtless. Make sure that you have comfortable “stations” ready for the task...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 15, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
Here’s how you confirm your status as an adult: you continue to squeeze the nearly done tube of toothpaste even when the shiny new tube sits seductively in the drawer. At times, I’d have to admit it feels as if I’ve poured every fiber in my body into...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 18, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
At just before nine Sunday morning six eighth grade boys wished me a Happy Mother’s Day as we pulled into the parking lot for their Frisbee tournament. A few had forgotten to say the same to their mothers. One has two dads and the kids reminded him he...
