by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Aug 14, 2014 | Standing In The Shadows
This week, as I walked down the promenade (Elm Street), I saw a woman trip and fall. She was running. A friend had found me walking so the two of us rushed to this woman, calmed her down, called the paramedics, called a friend of hers, and generally felt helpless...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Aug 26, 2014 | Standing In The Shadows
I’ve learned the acronym that essentially spells privacy at doctors’ offices is HIPAA. A new ruling extends it to the walls of baby photos on the walls at the OB or midwives’ office (or pediatrician, or orthodontist). We’re gonna miss the...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 8, 2014 | Standing In The Shadows
A friend posed one of those perennial parent queries the other day: Do I let my boy be a princess for Halloween? The question of how you feel about your child’s self-expression and explorations and passions is seemingly a lifelong one. Remember how mesmerized...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 24, 2014 | Standing In The Shadows
Admittedly, I’m a gratitude junkie. I “get it” that for me, the more gratitude I find the more there seems to be available to be found. Sure, to declare gratitude (current Facebook meme) is an exercise. Gratitude declarations—to yourself or...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 2, 2014 | Standing In The Shadows
I cleaned the linen closet. That’s a sentence I hadn’t envisioned myself uttering. It’s so… adult. It’s so not the adult sentence I’d exactly aspired to, but of course, if you have a house with many beds and people, you wind up...
