by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Dec 17, 2013 | Standing In The Shadows
Family’s such a loaded word. What is it, what does it mean, do you have one, did yours do right by you, do you do right by yours? Add, holidays. Here we are. In preparation, we ran a 5K in support of Safe Passage, along with 5,500 others. There’s something...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Dec 24, 2013 | Standing In The Shadows
The spirit of Valley Gives last week blew me away. Our Valley gave over two million dollars in twenty-four hours. That merits something. Applause? Cheers? Awe? Check, check, and check—and then some. The spirit not so much of Christmas proper although it’s...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jan 6, 2014 | Standing In The Shadows
When I tried to find a photo of Christmas that kind of said “Christmas” for a post for Brain, Mother about holidays and my overwhelm, I discovered that most of my photographs aren’t exactly Christmas-y. Sharing a couple here along with the link to...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jan 14, 2014 | Standing In The Shadows
Doesn’t this look worse than it was? Ghostly. Poor lighting. In the annals of what happened to you since January first, I really only have to say one word: “Laundry.” Yes, I did baskets and baskets of the stuff. On the second snow day that followed...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jan 21, 2014 | Standing In The Shadows
I’ve written about matters of toddler fashion on my little blog. What, I have wondered aloud, do feminist toddlers (and preschoolers and now maybe kindergartners) wear? Next question: what happens when feminists turn the camera lens on themselves? Veronica...
