by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Nov 13, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
Way back when—okay, November 2008—one of the ways I dealt with my extreme anxiety about the Presidential election was to write haiku. This year, to far greater reach and effect, Elinor Lipman did so with humor-filled ditties about the campaign, which were...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Nov 16, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
Really and truly I am even happier about last week’s election now than I was on Wednesday last. I just read last night (thank you, Twitter) that in Philadelphia (that’d be my hometown), there were 59 voting divisions where Mitt Romney got not one vote....
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Nov 18, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
It’s kind of rushed around here. The ups and downs—the life gets lifey—check, that’s happening. Yesterday, though, I took a completely unexpected eighteen-minute forty-second break to watch author and illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka’s...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Nov 20, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
Partly because my oldest kids are getting big, I’ve arrived at this wonderful moment in life—the one when the former babysitters have babies of their own. The babysitters’ babies! Full disclosure: I have incredible babysitter karma. I don’t...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Nov 22, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
From Tuesday Market Of the three good things about this week, tip-top might be that we get a break from the 7:30 AM high school start. It’s been getting grumpy around here again and I know we need a rest—and a breather from those struggles. This weekend,...
