Callie Feyen

{Baking} All things pumpkin: pumpkin donuts, pumpkin scones, pumpkin bars, bread, granola.  Pumpkin pie is coming.  That is my specialty. {Starting} My semester.  It’s go time and I’m quite anxious about getting the work done and getting it done well.  I don’t know if I can do it.  I’m also wondering what life will be like next year at this time without… View Post

Dear Baby Lewis, There are so many stories I want to tell you about your daddy.  There’s one to do with a trombone and a minivan on New Years’ Eve, probably my favorite December 31rst ever.  There are many stories of summer nights’ spent pillowed between Lake Michigan and the Chicago Skyline standing on the sand with friends, daring each… View Post

There’s a new journal in the shop. It’s called a “Scraps of Stories Journal,” and the idea is that you can collect little pieces of stories you read throughout the school year.  Say you were really into those Rainbow Fairy books, or Harold and the Purple Crayon.  Maybe reading Little House on the Prairie got you thinking about how different… View Post

This kid.  She is a beautiful mess, and she is 100% Callie Rebekah. She’ll take you for quite a confusing, hilarious, volatile ride if you’re up for it. She tells us she reads in her head, and I believe her.  She lives her stories and they are dramatic; filled with dinosaurs, princesses, Bear, and lots of tiaras. She is unstoppable… View Post

While I’m brushing Hadley’s hair this morning, she tells me, “A voice is not a noun. It is not something that I can touch.” I brush the front of her hair up into an elastic and tie a bow around it and she moves with my brushing so that her head touches my belly. “Do you think a voice can… View Post