by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Oct 28, 2010 | Communication, Culture, Faith, Life
Students are invited to “spit their best Jesus poem,” at tonight’s Poetry Slam being held at Portland State University. The audience judges the event with applause and the winner takes home $ 300. Campus Crusade for Christ is sponsoring the free community event,...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Oct 17, 2010 | Culture, Faith, Gratitude, Life, Outreach
In an Associated press article found in my Thursday Oct. 14, 2010 Oregonian newspaper, the individual stories of each of the 33 miners rescued after 69 days in a Chilean mine were shared along with a snap shot photo of each of the men. These particular stories of the...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Oct 15, 2010 | Adventure, Faith, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Moms, Parenting, The Extraordinary Ordinary
I finished it, but looking at my time, it seemed like I barely finished. I just did not get close to my goal. In fact, my finish time was 15 minutes slower than my first Portland Marathon, which was 11 years ago, and 45 minutes slower than last year. At first I...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Sep 16, 2010 | Authors, Church, Community Service, Culture, Faith, Life, Outreach, Rolling Hills Writing & Culture Connection, Writing
This month’s Rolling Hills Writers Connection fourth Thursday of the month meeting will be a writing outreach event at the Oregon State Penitentiary, Thursday Sept. 23. We will be carpooling together, leaving at 4:30 p.m. from the church, and participants need to get...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Sep 11, 2010 | Children, Culture, Family Life, Kids, Life, Moms, Parenting
So I am at the new yogurt shop called Yo Top It in West Linn on an outing with one of my 12-year-old twins, Wesley. I try to take each of my kids out individually, and with back to school here, I wanted to have this time with my seventh grader to talk. When we walk...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Aug 21, 2010 | Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2010, Adventures with Kids, Children, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Kids, Life, Moms, Parenting, The Extraordinary Ordinary
When I asked my twins what they wanted to do for this week’s adventure, they said hang with their cousins. But, I wanted to go to a new place, to adventure out. So we did what we often do–combine ideas. I told my sister that I wanted to get together and...
