by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Dec 4, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
Most of the time in my adult life as parent, writer, and Western Massachusetts resident, I am aware of being a daughter in relatively adult ways: I love checking in with my mother, catching up, sharing news. There is a sense of kinship and more importantly, of...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Dec 6, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." -Martin Luther King, Jr. Sometimes, ideals or beliefs are discounted as being too “naïve,” and without regard for real-world concerns. This week, that’s a tension I keep...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Dec 9, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
Yesterday, in my relatively little town (population, about 30,000), over 4,100 people showed up on a cold December morning to walk or run—two mile walk, five kilometer run—in support of Safe Passage, an agency that runs a shelter for women and children,...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Dec 11, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
I awoke—once around four, then again at six—to the purple-tinged darkness that is a snowstorm in action in the night. The snow is laying down a soft blanket (before the threatened sleet and ice and rain later on). It was exceedingly quiet, even muffled and...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Dec 13, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
There are those days, as a parent, when stir crazy applies. Sometimes, on those days, you can just get up and out and go or do and sometimes, you can’t. Every once in a while, those days coincide with my having just barely enough energy—or someone else in...