by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Mar 23, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
Just last month, my son was in the midst of the first grade’s big Great Changer project. Each child worked from a picture book about his or her changer in order to write a poem about the person and create a portrait (their gorgeous creations of poem-plus-artwork...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Mar 25, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
The stories woven together in the premiere production (at Hartford Stage) of Motherhood Out Loud—co-written by fourteen playwrights, co-conceived by Susan Rose and Joan Stein and directed by Lisa Peterson—tell us many truths about motherhood and perhaps...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Mar 27, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
As I watched and listened to the process I was being told to view as “history being made” and the “defining moment of Obama’s presidency,” I found myself feeling hollow. I am not so much a skeptic—pinky-swear—yet, yet the...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Mar 30, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
This morning, Saskia wanted to close the cereal box. As I tried to subtly help her, she said, “I do it myself. I don’t do it yourself.” Translation: Back off, mama (more direct command often heard from Saskia is this: Go away-way!). I did what many...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Apr 1, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
There’s a kind of Murphy’s Law quality to a Monday morning that begins with keeping three (out of four) kids home sick. What was the point of the week starting save but to taunt you? Did I mention that it was pouring? And that it was a cold March rain, not...
