by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jan 8, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
I don’t think I can put into words my euphoria Monday morning. Four kids in school after such a long time of no-routine, I just dove in: returned emails, pitched stories, wrote invoices and thank you notes, and generally attended to all that good loose end...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jan 11, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Even with a little derailment for Saskia’s tummy bug, I do feel as if I’ve begun this New Year—it sounds so good, 2011—in pretty fine style. I went to three Bikram Yoga classes and rather than despising them as I was sure I...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jan 13, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Oh, the sudden onset stomach bug. That was my later portion of Thursday evening. With that litany of words recalled when Saskia had her bout of vomiting on Monday, I thought I’d conjured all of ‘em. I neglected retch. Bingo. To make the yucky part brief...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jan 15, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Regardless of religious persuasion, having a birthday in spitting distance of Christmas probably means your big day is going to be overlooked. You can ask my dear husband (December 27th) about this. He will back me up. So, as ever in the holiday season—remember...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jan 17, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
If you live in the Northeast, you know that a big storm bellowed its way up the seaboard. In my town, we were promised about 15-18 inches and I think that’s about what we got. This made for one of those unequivocal snow days. The superintendent called it the...
