by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jul 15, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
This whole pretty thing, it’s really confusing to me. Here I am, mama to a very pretty (oh, of course I think that, but besides what I think, it seems to be echoed constantly by others without the same level of investment) two year-old girl. Despite the fact...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jul 17, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
I was in a writers’ group for many years. The group originated with four first year MFA students, four young women, two with curly hair, two with straight hair. We were all in our twenties and single, all differently but similarly struggling through. We wrote...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jul 20, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
Given her history for being an outspoken kind of celebrity and one who provokes (and sometimes also really inspires), is it any surprise at all that if a celebrity’s child might just stand out as a push against overwhelming trend it’d be one of Angelina...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jul 22, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
These are the kinds of stories we should not even have to discuss: whether women whose backs are truly against the proverbial wall obtain access—just to remember, access means funding—in order to terminate pregnancies that require termination to relieve...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jul 25, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
Years ago (and gosh, when I say years, I mean twenty-four or something crazy like that), I went to Russia (well, then the Soviet Union) with a peace group. We led a series of workshops, many of them nearly clandestine meetings, incorporating Joanna Macy’s...
