by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 15, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
It’s hard even to know where to begin. Maybe, I’ll begin as the lights went up just after the Laramie Project, Ten Years Later: An Epilogue at Northampton’s Academy of Music Theatre ended. Lucien, my eleven year-old declared, “My favorite part...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 17, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
Hang a clothesline. That sounds simple enough, right? Electric clothes dryers comprise at least six percent of household energy consumption. An article in last week’s New York Times reveals that the seemingly simple clothesline isn’t necessarily without...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 20, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
There are three kinds of autumn days I find most poignant: those chilled blowy days when leaves are swirling and I feel tossed around as those wisps of color; cloudy days when grey sky offsets jewel colored leaves all the more brilliantly as if from darkness the...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 22, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
Last week, Saskia and I went to the co-op. Please don’t imagine cute little toddler girl with a neat ponytail atop her head sitting, belted in by the handy safety strap on each cart, in the shopping cart. Instead, imagine cute little toddler girl, hair long and...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 25, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
Recently, I interviewed Clark University Professor Abbie Goldberg about her new book, Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children: Research on the Family Life Cycle. She researched gay and lesbian families—interviews, both of parents and grown kids of gay and...