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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...