by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jan 7, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
Although it hadn’t been two full weeks between the last day of school and the first day back, getting everyone in gear again isn’t easy. The gears feel stiff, as if we are all in need of the Tin Man’s oilcan. The cold surge didn’t help matters;...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jan 10, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
I’m not so much of a series person in the land o’blog. The one series, miniseries perhaps, I felt committed to was What Do Feminist Toddlers Wear? The little gal is many things these days. Toddler is not one. So the re-titled extension goes What Do...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jan 12, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
When I was putting up little teasers about the post I’d written for Hilltown Families yesterday, as part of My Mash Notes to Paradise series, I said of this one—about the lack of office buildings around my little town—that all the carpenters have...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jan 15, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
Just yesterday I was walking home from yoga and thinking that in the best case scenario, the really half-full rose colored lens of unreality, our balmy January weather in New England could seem kind of soft and benevolent, as if just this year, the universe wanted to...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jan 17, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
With each bit of reclaiming order from chaos, there seems to be some fallout detritus. Yesterday, unpacking a wonderful bunch of hand-me-downs there were about seven socks, none of which matches and six glittery shoes: two silver, two red, one black, one purple. Next...
