by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 4, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
Am I so overstretched and thereby scattered I cannot exactly pull together a coherent essay? Well, yeah. There are so many things going on evidenced by the state of the kitchen counter where I do my work. It’s a total mess. If I started the to list all the...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 7, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
October seemed to arrive decisively this weekend (the first weekend of the month), all brisk and breezy and somehow snap-your-fingers different. I do not have appropriate anything together: jackets that fit, all the other things we might need momentarily like hats and...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 10, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
For the longest time, I’ve been aware that the baby books—you know, those infant year tomes you fill with firsts—both have it right and are misleading. What’s right is observe and celebrate your children’s “milestones.”...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 12, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
We had ourselves one of those days you live in New England to experience as your own. The air felt cool while the sun shone warm. Leaves flapped from trees in all colors. The sky couldn’t have been bluer. The clouds, not many of them, seemed suspended, fluffy...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 14, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
Having read every single volume of L. Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz series—there are fourteen tales, in case you didn’t know—to my three year-old son, a precocious and book obsessed sort, even from infancy, I know that young kids can become...
