by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Mar 13, 2011 | Church, Community, Culture, Faith, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Live the Questions, Moms, Oregonian stories, Oregonian SW Community Section, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Outreach
My story about Jenni Reiling, who died Jan. 2, 2011 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 48, was featured in the SW Weekly section of The Oregonian on February 19, 2011. Here is the story and the link at the end to the online version. Jenni Reiling called Crystal Peaks...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Nov 30, 2010 | Culture, Faith, Family Life, Justice, Kids, Life, Live the Questions, Moms
She was merely trying to share a drink of water with her co-workers in the field, but they were not interested in water from a non-Muslim woman in Pakistan. The situation sparked an encounter, that led to accusations of blasphemy against a Pakistani Christian...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Nov 12, 2010 | Adventure, Community, Culture, Gratitude, Justice, Life, Moms
At 11:30 Wednesday night, while my son and I were watching the movie Apollo 13, the telephone startled us from the couch. My mind starting racing — My twins were at a retreat with the church youth group, my son and daughter away at college. The phone call...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Nov 8, 2010 | Adventure, Adventures with Kids, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Moms, School Days
My friend Kelly had extra tickets to the pumpkin patch and corn maze at Kruger farms on Sauvie Island a day before Halloween, and I just had to take her up on her offer. Taking the time to go on adventures with kids is so important to me. It means you put aside your...
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 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...
