by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 11, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
It’s quiet in my house. The kids are off with the dear husband at a neighborhood party I’ll join them at in a little while. Outside, a lawnmower buzzes. The light reveals autumnal clarity and a few leaves have turned colors and dropped, quietly and without...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 13, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
President Obama began his speech with a couple of stories. Here’s one: a woman’s insurance company denied her coverage when she was in need of a mastectomy because she’d neglected to report that she’d received acne treatment. By the time her...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 15, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
It's been a week focused upon beginnings around here. For all four kids, it was the first week of school. That’s right, even Saskia has her own school (she’ll be spending three mornings a week at the wonderful, warm, homey Sunnyside Child Care Center)....
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 17, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
Although that first autumnal crispness faded back to some hot sun (no complaints), the collective gestalt around here has moved on from summer’s lovely pleasure seeking ways to a sense of productivity (or should that be Productivity?). School’s in session,...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 20, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
Until I read about myself—well, not me specifically, let’s just say my ilk—I never knew I had become a “free-range” mother. Of course, my immediate association is that I should get chickens of the free-range variety and much as in theory...