Sarah Butler

2 weeks ago | lookouteugene-springfield.com | Ben Botkin |Sarah Butler |Mike Mcinally |Vanessa Salvia

QuickTake: Lane County residents face an uncertain future as potential federal funding cuts could erode an array of services they rely upon, from transportation to meals and air quality programs. The federal government has a wide reach in Lane County, but it could well diminish by tens of millions of dollars as the Trump administration enacts cuts that could hit virtually every corner of life.

May 6, 2024 | uscatholic.org | Sarah Butler |Steven D. Greydanus

Ethan Hawke’s Wildcat opens, very nearly, with a familiar scenario: a dispiriting encounter between a young artist with an exacting creative vision and a conventional corporate gatekeeper with a checklist approach to what sells. The scene depicts a real-life exchange between 24-year-old Mary Flannery O’Connor (played by Maya Hawke, the director’s daughter) and her editor at Holt Rinehart regarding her unfinished novel Wise Blood, which the editor wants to conform to typical literary norms.

Oct 30, 2023 | uscatholic.org | Sarah Butler |Andrew Chesnut

Marisela, a young Mexican-American woman, was going through a period of debilitating anxiety and depression. “I was in such a bad state,” she said. “I kept on binge eating. My thoughts were of the darkest kind. My self-esteem was so low I stopped taking showers, sometimes for a month at a time.”A survivor of abuse, Marisela felt guilty and hopeless, as though there was no point even in pursuing basic hygiene. And, she felt, no one understood what she was experiencing.

Jan 9, 2015 | uscatholic.org | Danny Duncan Collum |Sarah Butler