Callie Feyen

  Now listen, Baby Boy Lewis. I’m going to tell you everything you need to know about being the little brother to a fabulous older sister. I have 42 years of experience to give you, and I know what I’m talking about. No, I was not the younger sibling. I was the fabulous older sister. You have enormous shoes to… View Post

  For this month’s installment of “When Readers Listen,” Abbie and I are writing about The Longform Podcast, #148: Anna Holmes. You can listen to it here. What it taught me about reading: In regards to online reading, it seems we are in a culture where a lot of what’s written is written in a tone that sounds like screaming.  This… View Post

When I was a kid, I would have this ritual I would go through before I left a place. I think it started in sixth grade, and I think it started by accident.  Mr. Bitoy, my sixth grade teacher, sent me on an errand; probably it was to get something from the office.  Since I’d been at Longfellow Elementary since… View Post

I can still feel how good it felt to write one of my first blog posts. It was about Hadley’s lack of napping, and I was so frustrated because I couldn’t get her to sleep more than 45 minutes. I sat down to write about it, and in my writing, I dug up something humorous in my voice. It was… View Post

Of course you’re busy thinking about school supplies and lunch boxes.  Last week, Hadley, Harper, and I were getting into the car to go somewhere and Harper said, “The wind sounds different.  It sounds like fall wind.” We listened for a second to see if we could hear the difference between seasonal winds, and I swear I heard the sound… View Post