by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 11, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
It’s no surprise that with four kids in four schools, the first day of school was neither a singular event nor did it occur on just one day. Turned out, the first day was broken into three first first days. If this blog’s software let get many photos onto...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 14, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
When you’ve been watching your kids over many years, you start to notice patterns, like with some kids things get tricky just before the birthday as if developmental leaps are timed to sync up or how when big, growing and stretching events are taking place...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 16, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
The part of democracy that’s about participating in the larger community, specifically helping to make the process of community (not a verb, yet an active entity) function, always gives me a thrill. I feel it even when I am in despair about the politics of the...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 19, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
I wrote about being reminded of this simple practice, one I often do with my kids: note three good things about the day. Like getting enough sleep, it’s so deceptively simple—and, if you do it, so powerful. ** I’ll admit, this recent patch has been...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 22, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
I’m not a practicing Jew, as in, I don’t belong to a congregation these days nor do I go to a place of worship for holidays, nor do I even observe holidays in any way you could deem the least bit traditional. That is to say, to the extent we bring Judaism...
