Writers Connection January 17 features Ana Brors, a social media strategy specialist
Writers Connection starts up again this year after taking December off -Thursday Jan. 17 features featuring Ana Brors, a social media specialist. who co-founded Social Media Handlers. Her business website is: Social Media Handlers Writers Connection is a writers...
The kid got no i-Anything for Christmas
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...
Omi took me to the woods
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...
Wonderstruck invites readers to recognize the gift of everyday life
Favorite author and speaker Margaret Feinberg Margaret Feinberg Website has a new book and 7-session Bible Study called Wonderstruck: Awaken to the Nearness of God that releases on Christmas Day. She calls it your personal invitation to toss back the covers, climb...
A Mini-Blowtorch-lit Advent–It’s is all about Tradition
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...
Why Gabby Douglas Almost Quit Before the Olympics – My Christianity Today story
Gabrielle Douglas captured countless hearts at the 2012 Olympic Games, where she became the first African American to win the women's gymnastics individual all-around. Just 16, she dazzled during the gold-winning women's gymnastics team competition. But fewer...
Locked up at 16, he calls this place home — but not much longer
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...
Sports Spotlight on Emily Hooper, a Wilsonville soccer standout who looks at each game as her last
(This weekly athlete of the week feature I write was originally published in Dec. 1, 2012 print edition of The Oregonian, SW Weekly section Oregonian story link online) Name: Emily Hooper Age: 17 Where she...
The Show Goes On — Tryouts begin Dec. 5 for West Linn-Wilsonville School District’s “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”
(Originally published in Dec. 1, 2013 Oregonian SW Weekly Oregonian) The West Linn-Wllsonville School District’s annual middle school musical begins its 19th year with the production it started with in 1995 -- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat....
Piecing Together West Linn’s 100 Year History – Oregonian SW Weekly Cover story Nov. 24, 2012
(Originally published in Nov. 24, 2012 Oregonian newspaper SW Weekly, Cover story -- Oregonian story link online As West Linn heads towards its 100-year anniversary as an incorporated city, members of the West Linn Centennial Planning Committee are asking community...
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