Not surprisingly, my last memorable conversation with Bob Glatzer was a lively argument about a movie. I adore Meryl Streep and I thought 2009’s Julie & Julia, a clever parallel story about the legendary Julia Child and the contemporary food writer Julie Powell, was a terrific film.
Sleepless summer nights with the architects of the Christian Coalition.
By Jamie Borgan (originally published on 9.06.09)
As summertime wanes to a close my biological mojo has been disrupted.
Despite running and playing this summer with the intensity of a sixth grader aware that her carefree days as ruler of the elementary school playground are ending with every late summer rotation of the earth, and despite peppering busy outside play with work, travel, weed-pulling, cooking, and all around busy-ness, I have spent the past month NOT sleeping.
Bonne Beavers came to the Center for Justice a decade ago, and in quiet and powerful ways she helped build a community institution and a remarkable personal legacy.