by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Sep 7, 2009 | Rolling Hills Writing & Culture Connection
For this month’s writing and culture connection meeting, we are traveling to the Pen! – Writing at the PEN – The Oregon State Pen in Salem has invited us back on Thursday Sept. 24 in the evening for its writing contest and we will use that as our...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Sep 5, 2009 | Adventure, Adventures with Kids, Kids, Life
We hiked up the Sleeping Beauty Trail for an adventure in the Mt. Adams wilderness area and it was a team effort to get 9 of us from various ages and abilities up that hill. One of our Sudan friends was having a really hard time and we told her this was a team effort...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Sep 1, 2009 | Christianity, Culture, Faith, Faith and Culture, Family Life, Justice, Life, Live the Questions
One moment he is riding his bicycle in Africa and the next he is struck by a motorcycle and gone from this earth. Former West Linn High School band teacher who taught my son Ryan for three years, Jeff Cumpston, a day shy of his 53rd birthday, was killed in Zimbabwe...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Aug 29, 2009 | Moms, Real LIfe, Real-Life Mom column, Transitions
We dropped off Ryan at George Fox University on Thursday. It was a day of new student orientation and he was anxious to be on his own, to get set up, to start this new chapter of his life. It was a family event, with a fair in the middle of the campus and Ryan’s...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Aug 26, 2009 | Adventure, Adventures with Kids, Children, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Kids, Life, Moms, Real LIfe, Real-Life Mom column, The Extraordinary Ordinary
Wow, what a week [two as one of the weeks was preparing]- a road trip to Yellowstone Park-our first with our children. Our daughter’s boyfriend Stefan from Germany was with us and he was baptized into our large family life- eight of us squeezed into a Chevy...
