by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Oct 7, 2015 | Write31Days
Last night my friend Jeanie came over and we watched the movie “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.” My twins, who are almost 18 years old, and my son Gus, 12, joined us even though it was a school night. Jeanie, my daughter and I were originally going to go out to the...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jul 7, 2015 | Life
My neighbor Joyce needs supplemental oxygen just to breathe. She cannot go anywhere without it. She sits on her couch with her thin oxygen tubes connected through her nose and with this heat; it’s been especially hard on her. Today, she left me a voice mail that the...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jun 20, 2015 | A Thought a Day on Parenting for 31 Days, Parenting, Uncategorized
Friday night my 17-year-old twin son Michael Josef wasn’t feeling good after we went to see Jurassic World. I wasn’t feeling great either. My 12-year-old son had talked us into purchasing the D-box seats for this particular showing of the new dinosaur hit movie; D-box...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Oct 21, 2013 | Africa, Christianity, Faith, Family Life, Fundraising, Justice, Kids, Outreach, Summer, West Linn, West Linn Neighborhood Correspondent for Oregonian SW Community, West Linn news, Youth
Presentation- Barbara and Todd Briscoe and family will discuss their Rwanda mission trip in a one-hour presentation from 7-8 pm, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 8-9, at the Lake Oswego Art Center, located at 510 1st Street in Lake Oswego.The family of four will share...
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...
