by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jul 7, 2013 | Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2013, Adventures with Kids, Community, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Kids, Life, Moms, Parenting, West Linn, West Linn news
For this Adventure with Kids, we drove some place close to home: West Linn’s treasured White Oak Savanna, which is 20 acres of rare white oak trees that have been saved by the efforts of local activist Robert Schwarz and many others. For the past nine...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jun 29, 2013 | Children, Family Life, Home, Kids, Life, Live the Questions, Moms, Parenting, Real-Life Mom column, Tradition, Transitions, Writing
(This was also published in The Huffington Post Huffington Post- Can We Just Relax Mom?”) The start of summer is a bit disorienting for me as a mom, and I know for many other parents as well. What to do with the kids this summer, 12 weeks long. During the...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jun 19, 2013 | Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2013, Children, Family Life, Kids, Life, Parenting, Portland, Real-Life Mom column, Slowing Down, Summer, Tradition
My twins, who are now 15, asked at the start of the summer, whether we were doing swim lessons with the cousins. Mind you, my twins can swim. But, their younger brother is still mastering his water skills so we take advantage of the Free Swim Week that the Portland...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Apr 8, 2013 | Art, Faith, Faith & Culture Writers Conference, Faith & Culture Writers Connection, Faith and Culture, Faith. Culture. The Arts Connection, Live the Questions, Multnomah University, Writers Connection-, Writing
(Art on WORDS banner: www.martinfrench.com) (The wonderful leadership planning team who helped make the 2013 Faith & Culture Writers Conference happen: l-r: Ana Brors, Ashley Larkins, Kari Patterson, me, Bethany Jackson) I am just coming off of the 2013...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Mar 15, 2013 | Art, Christianity, Church, Culture, Faith, Faith & Culture Writers Conference, Faith & Culture Writers Connection, Faith and Culture, Faith. Culture. The Arts Connection, Life, Live the Questions
(Originally published at OREGONIAN-WEBSITE-Liar/Lunatic story) Spoken word poet Phil Long, who is a featured presenter at our opening night at our FAITH & CULTURE WRITERS CONFERENCE brings his one man performance, Liar | Lunatic, to the Headswater Theater ...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Feb 6, 2013 | Art, Culture, Justice, Life, Live the Questions, Writing
Several plates had steaks painted on them. Some had a hamburger depicted on them. There were quite a number of plates with paintings of a variety of fish. One had a cigarette as its focus in the middle of the plate and another a cold glass of ice water. Then there was...
