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Pie Is So Sweet…

by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 14, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows

… I’m writing the Tuesday Three on a Monday. Here’s a little event that if you’re local to me—include the Berkshires because this is fun—you might like to hop on to downtown Northampton for it. It’s a pie contest at Tuesday...

Bluest Skies in September

by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 18, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows

The sky on Tuesday was clear blue perfection. A Tuesday, even—and so I thought, of course, about that impossibly blue sky 11 years earlier when our sense of what we could trust fell out from under us. I thought about how unable I was to know what I could say...

How the New Year Began plus Three on Tuesday

by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 20, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows

You know that movie that has the line, “They’re Baaaaaaaaaaacccck?” Yeah, the lice returned, whether it a new infestation from a brand new source or some devious little lurkers. Eeek. Yuck. Eww. Curse word of your choice. The bright side was that we...

What Do Feminist Preschoolers Think? The Boys Don't Wear Installment

by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 25, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows

Yesterday, which happened to be my eldest’s 17th birthday (pause, yes, WOW, move along) he and I went to pick up Saskia at her pal Addy’s house. Saskia and Addy made felt crowns during their play date. Given the birthday in our midst, I suggested to Addy,...

Glory Days, Glory Kids, Tuesday Three

by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 27, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows

The glory days are here, those clear and bright nectar moments when the air seems like a perfect touch upon your skin. Much as I really can’t stand winter, I am unable to deny that if it’s required to have autumn, then it must be so, because these days are...
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