by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Apr 30, 2014 | Standing In The Shadows
I love that Emily Dickinson line: “Hope is the thing with feathers,” although I must confess mostly I love it because long ago our baby Remy got a feather lodged into his cheek and by the time the thing came out the other side ten days later, it was the...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 9, 2014 | Standing In The Shadows
It’s been a quiet, rather turned in, not so easy spring and the cool days, which put the winter jacket right back on me, feel as fitting as they do too freezing. That’s because one, I feel the need to be bundled up and two, the preservation of this...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 19, 2014 | Standing In The Shadows
(This is just two of the three small boys with my small girl) Sometimes, the smallest things make a day—or night—much better. I felt as if my quality of life rose when I bought a white noise machine. The idea came from my frantic-for-every-second-of-sleep...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 27, 2014 | Standing In The Shadows
Last Monday, Karen Rile, editor of Cleaver Magazine, posted about a blog train, which she—and Cleaver editors—hopped on. She invited me to hitch a ride. The rules of the blog train are simple: on Monday, last week’s riders introduce three new...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jun 6, 2014 | Standing In The Shadows
If you wanted a one-sentence description of Brian Leaf’s book Misadventures of a Parenting Yogi you might go with something along the lines of: “Once Brian Leaf thought he had to find inner peace through yoga and silence, but then he had kids and...
