by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jun 6, 2010 | Culture, Justice, Life, Live the Questions
During an interview this past week regarding my blog post, “Where’s a Police Officer to get a cup of Coffee?” I was asked whether I knew what the red and black stood for before going there for lunch Tuesday May 18 with my daughter. I had briefly...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jun 6, 2010 | Art, Culture, Faith, Faith & Culture Writers Connection, Faith and Culture, Living - Oregonian Newspaper, Oregonian stories, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Writing
(Originally published in print edition of The Oregonian, O! Sunday section, June 6, 2010 Oregonian O! Story on Matt Mikalatos) (Photo: Arkasha Stevenson, The Oregonian)(Photo: Matt Mikalatos, author of “Imaginary Jesus,” has his hands (and shoulders) full with...
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...
