Callie Feyen

Homework over hot chocolate and marshmallows, afternoons still warm enough to draw our friends outside (that’s Bear), eating homegrown (well, school grown) lettuce in Garden Club, making Cinderella cookies and wearing Cinderella masks (“Cinderella’s my favorite because she’s blue”), decorating leaves for fall (I was told some of these leaves are “superhero leaves”), getting ready to turn in my first packet… View Post

We were in Frederick last Saturday for their annual early trick-or-treating fest. (That’s not really what it’s called.  Fellow DCers, if you haven’t made the trip out to Frederick during one of these things, I highly recommend you put it on your calendar for next year.  There’s haunted houses, there’s candy, there’s dancing in the streets.  It’s a blast.  Here’s… View Post

WARNING: If you’ve read on “Notes from Naptime,” my post about caterpillars and you didn’t like it, don’t read this one. Last week, the girls and I were getting out of the car when Harper spotted a chipmunk on the sidewalk. She yelled, “Chipmunk!” ran up to it, and it didn’t scurry away like most do.  Hadley went to see… View Post

I think I might write sometimes about my MFA work.  Will that be OK?  I know you come here for her: and this one, too: But today I want to tell you about where I go to do my writing.  Most days I am at my desk and I look out my window and watch the leaves outside when I… View Post

Every Monday, Hadley brings home a packet of homework that is to be turned in on Friday, so about three afternoons a week, Hadley, Harper, and I sit at the table in our sunroom and do homework. Look how happy Hadley is.  This above picture is Hadley’s writing face.  Or rather, her “I don’t want to write face.”  She told… View Post