by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 28, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
I woke up at loose ends. Well, actually, I woke first just before five and thought I heard Saskia crying and then thought I had dreamed I’d heard her crying when it was quiet and then heard her crying. The dear papa brought the girl to bed and got her a bottle...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 30, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
On my long list of things no one tells you about parenting—call this one #567—I’d put one simple word: Halloween. From all those childhood years of your own and those mounds of high fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated oils heaped on the supermarket...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Nov 1, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
This was the sentence my friend, Sam, uttered about his four month-old son just after his first sentence—“He started off sleeping really well”—and before his next—“It does get better again, right?” What’s the correct...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Nov 3, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
There are a couple of things about our own personal stories I’ve learned in these decades on the planet. First, there’s not really one story for any story and stories change over time, or at least, their meanings change for us. Adoption, as I’ve...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Nov 6, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
A new school—for my seventh grader—offers lots of things: challenges—it’s not so easy to be new—and delights—the school newspaper, the mini-courses, the river study that takes place outdoors, the Chorus—and another perspective...
