by Ann | Mar 19, 2016 | The Midwest, USA, Where we've been
About this time each year, we make the hour and 45-minute drive from our home in Southeast Nebraska to Steve’s hometown of Shenandoah, Iowa, to have our taxes done. We typically meet with our CPA in the morning and then check out downtown Shen, stopping for a...
by Ann | Jan 15, 2016 | USA
This summer, we received a beautiful postcard from the Amana Colonies near Cedar Rapids, IA. The postcard was sent by a friend of ours, Jen Van Winkle and one of her friends, June Biggs. Jen and I have been friends for more than a decade. We met when I was working in...
by Ann | Jun 25, 2015 | USA
A good friend of mine from high school lives in Iowa now and recently sent us a postcard from Kalona, just an hour south of where she and her family live. They’ve lived there for years but had never been to nearby Kalona which was settled as an Amish community...
by Ann | Sep 24, 2014 | Family, USA
We received our first postcards from a reader this week from none other than my mom, Carol. She had a fantastic time in Mason City, Iowa, the boyhood home of Meredith Willson who wrote one of our families’ all-time favorite musicals — The Music Man. The...