Topic: heaven

There are plenty of days where I Really Don't Like My Children. Oh, come on. You know it's true. Well, it's true for everyone except my *own* mother. I was an angel sent straight from heaven. (Lucifer.) For me, a surefire way to get us out of the Family Funk is to grab a book, and start reading. Together, that is. From Reading Magic: Read-aloud sessions are times when parents and children...

Community leaders and philanthropists Sam and Becky Johnson might be shaking their heads up in heaven, hearing the news that their gift to the city, Sam Johnson Park, is known by many as “Stoner Park.” Problems in city parks, and most particularly the Johnsons’ namesake park, brought city police and community members together last week to discuss possible solutions to the juvenile...

Tammy (Alsup) Lansaw wrote: “I worked at Western Seminary over 30 years ago. I worked on the third floor of Bueerman Hall for a number of faculty members, all of which I’m sure have moved on to retirement or heaven.” I have been thinking of some people who had a great influence on me. (I was in my mid-late 20’s) and would love to be able to contact them again. You in the...

It would be rudely hypocritical of me to propound the democratic glories of citizen activism--and then turn on someone just because the mainsteam media label him a gadfly. Heaven knows I sympathize with a lot of gadflys, who are really smart people trying to keep a government on their toes. Heck, I may even qualify myself now that I've been tossed out on my ear by the Lake Oswego Council. There's...