Callie Feyen

Starting: a new essay.  My mentor this year wants me to try an essay that does not have me in it.   Like what Ira Glass does in This American Life. He has the coolest job, doesn’t he?  That’s what I want to do when I grow up.  Anyway, I’m working on writing something about a sculpture at the University of… View Post

We’re celebrating my in-laws’ 45th wedding anniversary this week in Michigan and that means biking around Mackinaw Island, building rock cairns to mark our trails, going on boat rides, having a bit of cherry lemonade at the Cherry Republic store, and of course, looking for Petoskey stones. Fun times are being had by all.

This week the girls and I watched Anne of Green Gables. On VHS, mind you.  Harper wasn’t that into it.  She wondered when the “kid part” was coming.  Meaning, “Where are the cartoons?”  Hadley, on the other hand, loved it.  She was a little concerned about the folks in the movie who were being mean to Anne, and she is… View Post

Good gracious, we’ve been to the pool and the ice-cream shop(s) and the park if it’s not too hot. We’ve taken walks around the neighborhood looking for bunnies (we have several hopping around) and butterflies. We’ve been to the zoo, a puppet show, we’ve even been bowling. Summer seems to be just about over but one thing we’ve tried to… View Post