Callie Feyen

This is something I wrote from my first year of graduate school about Hadley dancing.  I’d like to share more about her performance on Friday night at the football game, but right now I need to let all of it simmer.  For now, here’s a little bit from an essay called “Grace on a School Bus.” “Today, I am standing… View Post

This is a little something I wrote for the girls’ schools’ Book Fairs that I thought I’d share here as well.   Do you want to know a secret?  I was never a reader.  I didn’t mind listening to stories but I hated to sit down and read them.  Do you remember those Choose Your Own Adventure books?  The ones with… View Post

{Baking} All things pumpkin: pumpkin donuts, pumpkin scones, pumpkin bars, bread, granola.  Pumpkin pie is coming.  That is my specialty. {Starting} My semester.  It’s go time and I’m quite anxious about getting the work done and getting it done well.  I don’t know if I can do it.  I’m also wondering what life will be like next year at this time without… View Post

Dear Baby Lewis, There are so many stories I want to tell you about your daddy.  There’s one to do with a trombone and a minivan on New Years’ Eve, probably my favorite December 31rst ever.  There are many stories of summer nights’ spent pillowed between Lake Michigan and the Chicago Skyline standing on the sand with friends, daring each… View Post

There’s a new journal in the shop. It’s called a “Scraps of Stories Journal,” and the idea is that you can collect little pieces of stories you read throughout the school year.  Say you were really into those Rainbow Fairy books, or Harold and the Purple Crayon.  Maybe reading Little House on the Prairie got you thinking about how different… View Post