by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Aug 31, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
While surely I am stoppable—I have four stories to write plus blog ahead this week, one school starting, little childcare, a couple of greet-families-for-school events and more—I seem unable to help myself; I must keep plugging away with the end of summer...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 2, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
This week, my second guy—first of the four sibs—returns to school. It’s a new school for him, Hilltown Cooperative Charter Public School. At the nearly last gasp, his terrible numbers in two charter school lotteries came up (into August) and a visit...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 5, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
Could I say that our bad turn actually began the day before at our most favorite place, Tuesday Market? No, I can’t quite bring myself to lay blame entirely on the mushrooms. That wouldn’t be fair. It wasn’t their fault. Nor could I responsibly lay...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 7, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
To be all bloggy and serial-post-ish, if you read my last piece, you know that mushrooms did not make it better and that we’ve been having a few of those days (but who’s counting?). Throughout this swampy, soupy, clingy, dragged out week, I keep running...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 8, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
For JM Sorrell Things in our lives do not always go as planned, so when my friend called with the very sad news her father was in hospice care and she needed to pick up and be with him during this time, I instantly agreed to officiate at the wedding she had agreed to...