by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jul 23, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Although I’m not heading for some exciting vacation destination, the season keeps offering up change-of-pace delights just the same. Already this season, I’ve felt this in the strawberry field and the movie theater and this past week I’ve felt it...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jul 25, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
I am wrung out. There’s a massive heat wave and the result personally is that I feel like a balloon deflated with the rubber looking darker because I’m no longer buoyant. Being wrung out is making me feel darker. Odd thing is this: there are so many...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jul 27, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
In the day-in-the-life blogging mode, Saturday evening I chopped Lucien’s hair short so that he might feel summery cool for basketball camp this week. I didn’t bring a camera to the train, but he boarded one and rode to his grandparents’ station....
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jul 29, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
We are tennis afternoons, talking to our brother on the phone in Philadelphia, choosing the four headbands we consider pink and purple, being bored, playing with Kate and Gabe, and hosting the soon-to-be fattest woodchuck in town in the backyard. That’s to say,...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jul 31, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Summer is a sea of transitions. Remy leaves for camp in a couple of days. He had a transcendent time last summer. For the past few days, he’s entirely forgotten that part. Waves of tears and worry are followed by glimmers of remembering what he loved about camp....
