Callie Feyen

{enjoying} the smell of our Christmas tree and looking at all our ornaments.  This year we went to Butler’s to cut ours down and the girls loved wandering around in the forest. {reading} A Syllable of Water: Twenty Writers of Faith Reflect on Their Art. This is my third time reading it and I think Luci Shaw’s essay “A Writer’s Notebook,”… View Post

Because she’s quite concerned that some people don’t get birthdays on a yearly basis. And because it wouldn’t surprise me if, when she grows up she: a) knows the President, b) IS the President, and c) makes Leap Year “void.” Because this child is my poet. Because this is what the girls and I sang on the ride to school… View Post

This is a post for Project Reverb14, a nice website that sends out monthly prompts. You know I love a prompt, so I enthusiastically signed up. This month’s prompt had us thinking about Thanksgiving food we love, and the meals that were particularly memorable. Here’s what I came up with: We’re making a sweet potato dish from Smitten Kitchen for Thanksgiving…. View Post

My sister-in-law turned me on to a blog called Reading My Tea Leaves by Erin Boyle, and I became a subscriber soon after. My favorites of hers so far are her posts titled, “My Week in Objects.” She displays a few pictures of things that had something to do with her week, then writes a sentence underneath them beginning with, “Because.”… View Post

  I’m so disappointed that I’m not posting here twice a week like I have been for the past few years. I have a lot to say; so many stories I want to tell you about. It turns out though, that I can’t produce the things I want to produce in the time I think I ought to produce them…. View Post