by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 4, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
When I think back on this morning eighteen years ago, it really does seem a lifetime ago. Just a couple of weeks shy of three years in (relationship, love, living together—all more or less an instant deal) we were not strangers or anything. Still, our sense of...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 6, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Last weekend, I whacked my tailbone. It was one of those annoying maternal injuries. I reached for a squirming three-year-old across the table—at Herrell’s of course—and the force knocked me back harder than expected against the banquette. I did not...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 8, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Last month, I was catching up with my cousin. She called on a morning when the aspiring chef teen woke at five in order to assemble and bake an apple pie for a pie contest. In my slumber, I said to him sure, bake the younger guy’s peach pie as well. That’s...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 10, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
In the land of the blogosphere where you can pretty much convince yourself that every other mother is sewing her house’s curtains, cooking straight from the bountiful, beautiful garden and managing to do BIG IMPORTANT THINGS away from home, all whilst rocking a...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 12, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
No question that living in New England, the timing of the New Year works: all that sweet harvest energy, the juicy apples, the mysterious grape scent wafting, even the crunch of the leaves that make your footsteps talk back. The light, the foliage and the endings of...
