by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Aug 10, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Quoting my dear husband: “Given the fact that my wife loved Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books so much, her wanting to learn to make jam was practically inevitable.” There may be an iota of truth to this. To be perfectly clear I am not a sewer or knitter...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Aug 12, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
I’m definitely having a wee bit of summer melancholy. It’s the August-is-here-summer-is-fleeting variety. I don’t feel recharged yet. I thought of summer as recharge time. It’s more like four-kids-many-transitions-bunches-of-work busyness this...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Aug 14, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
The swirl the world made this week, from riots to Wall Street’s mood swings, almost has me wanting to resign from civic engagement. At the very same time, I was reminded that the best thing to do when the overall mania of the world, capital W, feels overwhelming...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Aug 16, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Few hugs are as fantastic as the one you get from your beaming, tired, sunned, extremely filthy camper when you arrive at camp. How fitting that his camp is called Journey’s End Farm Camp. As he introduced us to the animals, it was clear that what happens at...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Aug 18, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
I have a mother-in-law whose abilities to make PIE are pretty much, legendary. She made a birthday pie for a friend the other evening. Quoting Rachel: “Lisa, can you alert me the next time you make pie and then include me in eating it?” My friend Gina...
