by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 25, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Twenty-one years ago tomorrow, a certain dear husband and I went out on our very first date. Spoleto restaurant was where Pizzeria Paradiso is now and we sat up in the cozy rafter space that’s now the brick oven. I am so not messing with that as metaphor....
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 28, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
You know how sometimes a friend or family member calls and delivers such a perky everything’s perfect call that you can almost feel the gloss on their tongues? A friend was over yesterday describing such a call from a friend of hers as “the PR call.”...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Nov 1, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
This week started off super productively. I was just… cruising (well, actually, I was getting a lot of writing done). It was write-write-write and everything else. I finished some stuff. I sent some stuff out. Optimism and accomplishment reigned. I even...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Nov 2, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
Here’s some math: 48 hours without power=a household grateful for heat, light, working refrigeration, and Internet. ** I probably flashed to the mind-numbing routine that was essentially waiting out storms in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s The Long Winter about...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Nov 4, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
The one thing I did right during the whole Snotober experience was that on Sunday, when we were without power and with a warm enough, cozy, friend-and-family filled downstairs—picture adults, teens, and kids playing games—I went back to bed. I had my...
