Callie Feyen

This is a picture of the girls on Harper’s first day of school. In January, she started a program at the school Hadley goes to that runs once a week. This means that for about four hours I am free to do what I want. On this first morning I got up early to go to the gym. A new… View Post

We went to see the play Alexander’s Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day last weekend at Adventure Theatre in Glen Echo Park. To get to the theatre, you take a very pleasant walk through the woods,  and across bridges.  It’s lovely and genius because by the time the kids have walked along the path and oohed and ahhed at nature,… View Post

For Valentine’s Day, the girls and I signed up for a little nature walk and project at Brookside Gardens.  The problem was, we went to the wrong building on the grounds.  By the time we figured that out I was winded and flustered. I had words with another elderly lady thus making me flustered, and I was winded from the… View Post

A few days ago, I got an email from someone asking me if she could write a guest post on this blog. I don’t know who she is, and she didn’t tell me why she wanted to write on my blog.  I wrote her back and thanked her for her interest, and then asked her how she found my blog…. View Post

When I was growing up, I heard a lot about how bad MTV was for the kids.  Watching too much Kid ‘N Play can harm the brain.  Something about that guy’s hair and how high it was caused confusion in teenage brains, thus being unable to carry on a conversation or execute algebra problems. The same thing happens when you… View Post