Ray’s Shabby Cottage Furniture

Ray’s Shabby Cottage Furniture

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...
Postmark: Cedar Rapids, IA

Postmark: Cedar Rapids, IA

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...
Postcard from Kalona, Iowa

Postcard from Kalona, Iowa

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...
Thanks, Mom.

Thanks, Mom.

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...