by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jun 15, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
Last week, the little girl enjoyed the typewriter’s novelty at the eighth grade project presentations. The computer’s inner workings were this project’s focus. How I’d forgotten about sticky keys. Wow. I haven’t forgotten about determined...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jun 17, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
Random observations on a Friday, the last day of middle school, the last day of third grade: I’ve got lots to say about how gorgeously held my middle guy was (second of four, but so much the MIDDLE ONE) during middle school. Picture, thousand words, what what;...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jun 19, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
I’m not much of a Hallmarkian, so Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day aren’t big deal holidays (or really even marked) in our house. Father’s Day, though, in the world of written work, elicits publication of some strong...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jun 22, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
When the wonderful midday yoga teacher somehow gets everyone to face the back wall instead of the windows and then has everyone in downward dog, what happens is this: you see the gorgeous old buildings across Main Street and the sky above from upside down. I have to...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jun 26, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
As you might know, this spring I went to have my first ever pedicure complete with purple nail polish. You could say yoga made me do it, the intense desire for my toenails to smudge the yellow wall just like all the women with painted toenails do. Anyway, this...