About a decade ago, a family in my area of Iowa purchased a 24- by 40-foot Presbyterian church built in 1879 and transformed it into their…
Browsing: Point of View
Our hearts are broken. One of our own, our salesperson extraordinaire, Dan Burke, passed away unexpectedly in early December 2020. Those of you who read retrofit…
It probably was inevitable that my husband Bart and I would become farmers. We live in Iowa, after all! Bart’s knowledge of livestock, grain and their…
Perhaps you’ve seen the memes floating around social media of celebrities, like Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo, illustrating how they’ve been feeling during 2020 via scenes…
In the May-June issue, I struggled with the words for this column in light of the tragedies surrounding COVID-19. Here we are exactly two months later…
What a month it has been! It is early April, just over a week from our press date, and I’m struggling for the words to put…