Callie Feyen

Today Hadley will go to a Kindergarten Sneak Peek at school.  She will meet her teacher.  She will see her classroom.  These three short sentences are about all I have to say about the situation right now.  There’s a lot of chaos going on inside of me just as there was almost six years ago when she was getting ready… View Post

If you go to Pittsburgh, you might want go to PNC park. You may find the game interesting. Or you may want to work on your coloring. Perhaps running around a little baseball field is more your thing. You should make sure you check out Peppi’s – a great sandwich shop with black and white photos of people (some famous!)… View Post

Here are a few pictures of a conversation between Hadley and Jesse.  Hadley’s talking to him about getting a pet.  Note I wrote “talking” and not “asking.”  This is because Hadley does not ask.  She says things like, “I think it’s time we discuss the possibility of my getting a pet.” I am not kidding. She speaks with conviction and… View Post

I think the time I first managed to gain some trust from the first classroom of kids I taught was the morning I introduced memoir writing to them.  (I doubt any of my former students read this, and if they do I have a feeling they will argue that it was when we read Holes or created a Brer Rabbit… View Post

I brought home two necklaces for the girls: a pink butterfly for Hadley and a blue one for Harper.  Both are sparkly.  I also brought home a sticker book and a make your own teepee book for them.  Harper can place stickers onto a wild, wild west background and Hadley can cut out different teepees, glue their edges together and set up… View Post