by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 20, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
If you give a man (or woman, 2012, baby) a fish, he’ll eat for a day. If you give a man (or woman) a fishing pole, he’ll eat forever. If you give your child sneakers with laces, he’ll learn to tie them and be able to wear any damn shoes he...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 22, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
Fourteen years ago (Saturday), at one minute after noon on a sunny day much like yesterday—hot, yellow light after a perfect cool morning—my second boy emerged into the world. Peaceful there in the belly until 25 minutes before his arrival, that would, in...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 24, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
These days I come into Tuesday with force. Mondays, I try hard to hit the ground running, and get loads of work done. I just began to take a yoga class early evening Mondays, and it’s a new yoga effort for me, a flow class. I am giddy in love with it....
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 29, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
In the best-case scenario—or even a less-than-best-case scenario—when it comes to babies and parents, love is a given. The basics of babies aren’t about how to carry them or where to have them sleep or which diapers to use. I think they are about how...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 31, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
I am definitely having a little grass-is-greener moment here. Pretty sure another word for this is burnout. Plus, some solo parent time this week while the dear husband goes off on some work trips this week has me in a state of anticipatory anxiety about the...
