by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Mar 8, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
So, this week I published a piece on Huffington Post the gist of which is this: I had an abortion at 17 and while there were hard parts to it, the process—mostly, I’m talking about access to the procedure—was far easier than it would be if I found...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Mar 11, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Living with an aspiring chef/tweenager gourmet has its perks. When he perfects something—bahn mi or refried beans, hummus, tomato sauce—we really are pretty darn golden (and delightfully full) in our household. Sometimes, his ideas don’t...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Mar 18, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Last year, when the National Network of Abortion Funds launched a bowlathon for abortion access, the idea seemed so wonderfully silly—in the face of something so serious, i.e. the very real lack of access to abortion (and many other health care services)...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Mar 20, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
I’ll ‘fess up straight away. Since the news of Japan’s nuclear crisis, I’ve been trying to avoid the news. I mean to say, I’m not reading every story or watching the news or streaming video. I’m seeing headlines in newspaper boxes,...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Mar 22, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Sunday morning, Massachusetts: it’s 23 degrees outside and there are just a few tired patches of snow left. I hear birdsong. How impossibly magical is it that a morning ago I woke to the fullest orange moon hovering in the charcoal grey sky above the ocean?...
