by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Sep 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
Okay, I am so excited about Donald Miller’s next book that is just out called A Million Miles in a Thousand years. I have been a fan of Donald’s writing ever since reading Blue Like Jazz a few years ago and I have devoured everything else he has written...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Sep 15, 2009 | Slowing Down, The Extraordinary Ordinary
He sits at the corner of the bend of Carriage Way. Every morning and evening to wave at the passers by rushing to work or wherever the day requires. Just seeing him, makes me want to slow down. The first time I drove by a couple of years ago, he waved at me wearing...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Sep 8, 2009 | School Days, Transitions
It was a day of firsts in many ways on this first day of school. The twins had their first day of middle school today and Augustin is a first grader…I am home alone for an entire day for the first time since a few decades ago. . . Come to think of it, it is a...
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...
