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 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 | Jan 23, 2010 | Children, Faith, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Live the Questions, Moms, Parenting
During a lunch outing with my good friend Kristi from Rolling Hills at Manzana’s to celebrate her birthday, we spoke of gratitude and how you can build thankfulness into our kids’ lives. Too many of our children have this attitude of I deserve it all and...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Dec 19, 2009 | Community Service, Culture, Faith, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Refugees
Yesterday we took over a Christmas tree that we had cut down in the Mount Hood National forest to our Sudan friends in north Portland. They are refugees, a family of 9, who live in north Portland apartments. The mom, Tifiso, was so excited to get her tree into her...
