Callie Feyen

The first picture is a response from a writer friend of mine when I was freaking out about being in graduate school.  I said, “What was I thinking?!?!”  She told me what I was thinking, and now it sits on my computer. Some gifts for our niece from the girls.  Her nickname is Lulu but I’m not sure the girls… View Post

I know you’re all waiting with baited breath to learn who the winner of my very first blog contest giveaway is.  It’s like waiting to see what will happen on the next episode of “Breaking Bad”, isn’t it? They don’t call me Callie Suspense Rebekah Feyen for nothin’, folks. First, the judges. Hadley Grace Feyen will be seven tomorrow, or… View Post

As I mentioned in Tuesday’s post, I always warm up with a writing prompt before I get to the current essay I’m working on.  We did this in Santa Fe over the summer, and for one of them our mentor gave us this prompt: Write for five minutes using only one syllable words.  Here’s what I came up with: My… View Post

My first project of the semester is due this weekend, and I thought it’d be fun to show you some of the tools I’ll be using as I try to put words into some sort of lovely coherent order. {Steadtler triplus fineliner pens} They’re the best and look at all the colors!  It takes me a good five minutes to… View Post

On a Friday after school let out, I met up with a boisterous and lovely group of five, six, and seven year olds to read a story to them. The story is The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau written by Michelle Markel and illustrated by Amanda Hall. A few months back, the editor at Christian Home and School, a magazine I… View Post