by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jun 6, 2010 | Community Service, Gratitude, Justice, Life, Writing
I have had 19,000 visits onto my website from 56 countries/territories of the world in the past week. From New Zealand and South Korea and Ireland and Mexico and South Africa and Sudan. Even a reader from Iraq. The traffic shut down my website for a while....
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jun 3, 2010 | Community Service, Culture, Faith, Gratitude, Justice, Life, Live the Questions, Outreach, Refugees, Writing
When I blogged about the experience I had at a local café in Portland where my daughter and I were having a quiet conversation with a Portland Police officer before we were interrupted by the café owner, who asked the police officer to leave, I never dreamed that the...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | May 31, 2010 | Adventure, Children, Culture, Family Life, Kids, Life, Moms, Parenting
Noting the importance of physical education classes at school and healthy school lunches and eating less fast food and encouraging less time in front of the computer and TV screens and more time outdoors are all good when it comes to the ongoing discussion of how...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | May 31, 2010 | Children, Church, Culture, Family Life, Kids, Life, Moms, Parenting
A while back, we recently confiscated our 12-year-old twins’ I-Pods just before we were leaving for church. Okay, I know I am sounding like the tough-love mom, but if I am honest, my husband actually did the tough-parenting deed. I am the one who complains to my...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | May 22, 2010 | Adventure, Children, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Moms, Parenting
I dropped off my daughter at the airport on Thursday as she returns to Germany, and it was sad and it was hard and it was life and it was beauty seeing the way she adores her brothers and she is deliberate about reaching out to them and I love the way she is kind and...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | May 22, 2010 | Community Service, Culture, Gratitude, Justice, Life, Live the Questions, Refugees
My daughter and I were looking forward to a nice lunch at the Red and Black, a vegan cafe in southeast Portland, two days before she was to return to school in Germany. Having a vegetarian daughter makes for great eating adventures. I had heard about the southeast...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | May 8, 2010 | Oregonian SW Community Section
Originally published in the May 1, 2010 Southwest Metro Community News section of The Oregonian. Members, leaders and parents of West Linn Boy Scout Troop 149 and Cub Scout Patrol 504 stand in front of — and on top of — the ivy they pulled in just one...
