Callie Feyen

Thankful for: a Halloween parade at Hadley’s school just like when I was a kid, being able to stay for the party afterwords (I stood in the classroom watching 17 five and six year olds eat cupcakes, cheetos the size of my forearm, candy, and cookies.  Nothing is scarier than the potential craziness that would erupt any minute). Friends to… View Post

I like to tell you stories. I like that you come here to read my stories.  This month, though, I think I might try something different because I’m finding that the work of writing annotations and creative nonfiction for grad school is taking up a big chunk of my storytelling skills.  I want to record what goes on in the… View Post

A few years ago (I can’t believe I can start a post about my children that begins with, “a few years ago.” Really? Have I been a mother more than a few years?), during a Nor’easter (is that the right way to spell it? This type of weather seems new to me although we’ve been in the Mid-Atlantic longer than… View Post

I know you all think I dropped the glass slipper as I was running out of the ball but the truth is, I was running away from the ball and that darn shoe was slowing me down so I flicked it off.  A glass slipper?  Really, fairy godmother?  I don’t think Jimmy Choo would even go that far. Had I known the… View Post

You want to know which verse in the Bible makes me the most annoyed?  It’s the one about Mary storing all those memories in her heart.  I don’t know where it is in the Bible.  New Testament, for sure, and I think it’s somewhere after she finds out she’s going to have a baby. But Mary keeping all those thoughts… View Post