by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 1, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
There’s this line in Maurice Sendak and Arthur Yorinks’ The Miami Giant about a boat landing in Miami that goes, “So I swerved a bit.” That line of that very odd book, which manages to be funny and just a smidge unsettling at once, came to me...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 4, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
When confronted with this image, what do you say? No comment. ** I think the JC Penney shirt is such an extreme example it went viral. The uproar was so great they pulled the shirt and apologized. Okay, but do I offer my three year-old-daughter a choice about what to...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 6, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Turns and bedtime do not go hand-in-hand. Both Saskia and Arella wanted to be first going up the stairs to hear Saskia’s bedtime stories. They sat miserably just below the landing. I tried turns. No dice. “Would you each like a cookie?” I asked....
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 8, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
I stayed up way too late last night reading two articles, one about the debate over whether reducing multiple pregnancies (twins or above) down to singleton pregnancies, the other about a sperm donor with 150 children. The shared theme between these articles seems to...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 11, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
A couple of reasons I know that my jamming has overtaken some prime emotional real estate: 1) I was ready to try a new method—with pectin, well Pomona, the local pectin—of jam making, 2) on someone’s status update about jamming, I commented...
