Part 2 – Where’s a Police Officer to Get a Cup of Coffee? – and Why I write
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...
Getting kids outdoors and healthy family life
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...
Teaching our children I-pod and cell phone etiquette
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...
On dropping my daughter back off at the airport and frolicking in fields
dropped off my daughter at the airport on Thursday as she returns to Germany, and it was sad and it was happy and it was life and it was beauty and I love the way she adores her brothers and is deliberate about
Where Does a Police Officer Go For a Cup of Coffee? – Red and Black cafe . . .
Where’s a Portland Police officer to get a cup of coffee
My daughter and I were looking forward to a nice lunch two days before she was to return to Germany at the vegan black and red café in Portland. Having a vegetarian daughter makes for great eating adventures.
We had heard about this place as it was the opening scene in the book Imaginary Jesus
Earth Day ivy pull at Mary S. Young park produces quite the pile
Originally published in the May 1, 2010 Southwest Metro Community News section of The Oregonian. Members, leaders and parents of West Linn Boy Scout Troop 149 and Cub Scout Patrol 504 stand in front of -- and on top of -- the ivy they pulled in just one hour on...
Matt Mikalatos – the Tyndale author of Imaginary Jesus – featured at May 20 Writers Connection meeting
This month's Rolling Hills Writers Connection meeting, Thursday May 20, at 7 p.m. in the East Atrium features Guest Speaker Matt Mikalatos, a recent Western Seminary graduate, Campus Crusade for Christ missionary, and author of the just-released book, Imaginary...
Mom, did the devil make your hands hurt? and other questions of the faith of a 7-year-old
So my 7 year old says to me last night, as he sees my on-going bumpy rash on my hands, “Mom, did the devil make your hands hurt?”
I looked at him a bit confused and my husband said,
A word is always more than just a word
I was at church and my kids wanted to join me for the “big church” service rather than go to their individual classes, which I love. I so enjoy having my kids in church with me. Church can feel so segregated sometimes, grade school kids here, middle school in another...
West Linn Boy Scout builds memorial garden for church as his Eagle Scout project
Published April 3, 2010 in The Oregonian's SW Weekly-West Linn section Taylor Wells, 17, a member of West Linn Boy Scout Troop 149, began thinking about doing his Eagle Scout project at Emmanuel Presbyterian Church a couple of years ago as a way to give back to the...
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