by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Feb 10, 2013 | Authors, Family Life, Kids, Life, Moms, Oregonian stories, Oregonian SW Community Section, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Parenting, Southwest Weekly Oregonain, SW Weekly, West Linn, West Linn Neighborhood Correspondent for Oregonian SW Community, West Linn news, Writing
(Originally published in print edition of The Oregonian, Feb. 9, 2013, found at: Oregonlive.com STORY -) By Cornelia Seigneur, Special to The Oregonian February 09, 2013 Email Chad Dingle and his grandmother, Joan Callander, wrote a book together about addiction....
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jan 10, 2013 | Children, Culture, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Moms, Parenting, Real LIfe, Slowing Down, Technology, Writing, Youth
My kid wanted an I-Pod 5 for Christmas. Before this he wanted a new computer for Christmas. But, then his only waking thought became an I-Pod 5. My kid is 9-years-old. He asked me many times. He sent me links to where I could get an I-Pod 5. He told his Granma that he...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jan 5, 2013 | Adventure, Children, Extraordinary Ordinary, Kids, Life, Live the Questions, Moms, Parenting
Omi took me to the woods. My memories of times with my German Grandma on my mother’s side are walking on pine needle carpets along tree lined paths in Hessen Germany. She’d look for mushrooms on the way while she held her walking stick and as we meandered along on...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Dec 17, 2012 | Christianity, Faith, Family Life, Life, Moms, Parenting, Writing
We started focusing on the Advent season a few years ago, which for us translates into each Sunday evening in December gathering around our dining room table and lighting a new candle on our “Advent’s Kranz,” which is German for Advent’s wreath. Four candles arranged...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Dec 7, 2012 | Africa, Gratitude, Home, Justice, Kids, Life, Parenting, Refugees, Writing
He walks to the door with his supervisor to let us in the locked rusty metal door double bolted entrance, which leads us through a cement-to-ceiling wired fence that takes us into a courtyard where deflated basketballs and wet picnic tables are pushed to the side. He...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Nov 30, 2012 | Adventure, Oregonian stories, Oregonian SW Community Section, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Parenting, Writing
(Originally published as a cover story in the print edition of The Oregonian SW Weekly Nov. 10, 2012 Oregonian story link online) Grace Fischer and Emily Harkavy, both 9, peer into the stalls in the barn at the Little Corral, where they stroke Clover and Patches....
