Callie Feyen

We were invited to Erica Perl’s Aces Wild book party last weekend, and what fun it was.  Aces Wild is the sequel to the delightful When Life Gives You O.J., a story about a gal named Zelly who wants a dog very, very badly.  Her grandfather constructs a plan to help Zelly get one, and it involves an empty orange… View Post

{Standing} in the Children’s Section of Politics and Prose, the greatest bookstore in Washington DC. You can see Hadley and Harper’s feet in the picture.  They found a little reading nook. No, not an e-reader.  Something much more romantic than that.  A lovely corner in the bookstore with pillows and books and stuffed animals. {Thinking} about the times I used to walk over… View Post

At the grocery store, I stop first at the white peaches and the plums because they are on sale and fragrant, and because picking plums reminds me of going grocery shopping with my mom when it was summer and I was little girl. My brother and I sat in the cart and my mom would let us eat a slice… View Post

All the six and unders at church hang out on a wooden bench at the back of the church and eat cake.  They’re like a bunch of Norm’s, these kids.  PS- I did not make the girls’ dresses. I KNOW they’re pillow dresses.  I KNOW they are easily made. I KNOW that anyone with half a brain could sew them…. View Post