by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Mar 9, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
In our house, politics is not a hushed topic. So, it’s not out of the blue that the young teen is particularly engaged in politics (and of course, cooking). He started a Save the Earth club in third grade. He got into the birthday party as fundraiser of his own...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Mar 11, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
Before being included on a list of feminist mom blogs this week (on Ms. Magazine’s blog, natch) I found myself experience a moment of anxiety about whether my blog “counted” as a feminist mom blog. Yeah, I know, this seems a bit cuckoo as my last...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Mar 13, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
How to manage a teenager stage managing a musical, a nine year-old plus papa skiing, a younger teenager performing in a choral concert and a four year-old likely to be disruptive during the concert in the church? You depend on the kindness of your friends. Saskia...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Mar 18, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
We get the New York Times delivered on Sundays. The rest of the week—and even, at this point, for many Sunday stories—I read my NYT online. The physical paper started arriving as a most wonderful baby welcome gift from Lucien’s godmother nearly 14...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Mar 20, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
We decided it would be nice to spend a couple of days in the Berkshires—pretty place, staff development days at one school, a tiny bit of work this direction and besides we got a good deal on a nice place to stay—and so off we went. The added and...
