by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jun 21, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
I know—certainly at the very least in my bluest of corners in the formerly true blue state of Massachusetts (pre-Scott Brown, that is)—I am not alone in feeling disappointed in Barack Obama’s response (Tuesday night, the past sixty days) to the BP...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jun 24, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
I don’t know about where you live, but around here, these warm days become very social, sometimes purposefully and other times in more happenstance ways. Maybe New England’s four distinct seasons have something to do with it, as in we are warm now and can...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jun 26, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
Although BFF has entered the lexicon, an article in last week’s New York Times let it be known that some educators and professionals working with children are questioning the overall merits of childhood best friends. In short, despite the benefits of closeness,...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jun 28, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
Summer is here all right. On the solstice, that big moon shone and the sky held its deepening grey-blue hue that last iota longer enough to have it sink in that the light had stretched itself like a really gorgeously long limb, the muscle giving long, light days its...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jun 30, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
One thing I love about certain music: through it, I’m reminded that hope is really the best thing to have. Hope’s not always easy. Hope alone is not enough. But hope—also, love, faith, trust, a voice, and friends—is essential. Lose it and you...
