by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Dec 14, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
It’s one of those weekends. It all started Friday afternoon when I went to flip some laundry from washer to dryer (my laundry has gotten less drier dependent; I think I do three loads for the line to one for the dryer) and found some suspicious water...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Dec 16, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
Sometimes, the music one hears isn’t music at all. For me, nearing noon on a Tuesday morning, it was the sound of all those construction vehicles I once knew by name (most especially during the tweenager’s toddlerhood, when he was quite obsessed with...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Dec 18, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
Amongst the sentences I never expected to dream up: I can’t wait for the street to be torn up. Right now, our water problem has a temporary fix of a jerry-rigged septic—um, hole—in our front yard. Obviously, this inelegant—not to mention...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Dec 22, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
Besides water, another theme this week in the frantically-trying-to-clean-up-majorly-for-our-craft-show household has been that part of holiday “prep” known as teacher gifts and end of year celebrations (continuing into next week, with Hilltown Charter...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Dec 24, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
If I could put one word to my day today it would be sigh. Maybe, I’m saying less a word than an exhalation, the actual motion of letting go a teeny-tiny bit. As in, the construction brigade is in front of my house* being loud (to me, this spells W-A-T-E-R and...
