Category Archives: Feature

This weekend brings us Good Friday and Easter! Last weekend brought 86 degrees one day to a monsoon the next to cars in the ditches from snow the next. It’s officially spring in Iowa, and through all its imperfections, I still love Iowa. The golden colors and bright blue skies will soon turn to bright...

35 years ago (1979) Receiving the top awards at the annual FFA Parent-Member Banquet were Kent Vander Leest, Star Green Hand; Robert Dunsbergen and Don Jansen, Honorary Chapter Farmers; and Anson Veenstra, Star Chapter Farmer. Rodney Rozendaal announced the scholarship awards given to the FFA member who was the highest in his class scholastically: Marc Van...

We need to go get groceries, again. I feel like we need groceries all of the time. Anybody else relate? First, though, we need to eat breakfast. Second, while eating breakfast, add these ingredients to your list if you do not have them in your cupboards. This week, make this be your breakfast. I mean,...

Somewhere in between going to the eye doctor and getting groceries, I randomly decided I needed to find a cell phone for The Little. She’s obsessed with playing with our phones and will already throw a fit if we pry it from her tiny, clammy grasp. Of course, we’re talking a toy cell phone here....

Mmmmmm. What’s that smell, you ask? Freedom. That smell is delicious freedom, folks. Freedom only the great outdoors can provide. Sweet, sweet freedom spring has given us. In celebration of events like spring and Easter, I plan to buy and devour two Cadbury eggs. One because they are just plain yummy, and I’ll justify the...

Oh, what a week, folks! National Pi Day and St. Patrick’s Day all in one week. How does one recover from such an exciting week? This is how: From corned beef and sauerkraut to pizza pies to corned beef, sauerkraut pizza pies. Now that is an experience for your taste buds. One I recommend. Reuben...

You know when people say, “ignorance is bliss” or “what you don’t know can’t hurt you?” I found these two simple phrases to be oh-so-true this week. I was putting some nightstands in my room and moving my old ones to the closet. These nightstands I moved in are the first thing my Papa M....