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Feel Good Friday
Image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay BY: RACHEL WUMKES Happy March, my friends! It appears the month ‘came in like a lamb’ which I’m hoping means if it must ‘go out like a lion’ it will be a thunderstorm and not a snowstorm. The warm temps and continually melting snow has renewed my outlook on life. Funny how much you...
New Member Introductions
Photocredit: pittsfordchamber.org BY: RACHEL WUMKES Starting a business can be scary. Taking the leap of faith to build something from the ground up takes not only imagination and ingenuity, but the grit and determination to follow through. There’s planning, budgeting, scheduling, and the dreaded task of constant...
Let Me Look Into My Crystal Ball
photocredit: Pinterest.com BY: RACHEL WUMKES It was about this time last year when our lives came to a screeching halt. All the planning and preparation was well underway to ensure a season of fun at the lake when the rug was pulled out from underneath us. Now, as the temperatures begin to rise, melting the dreaded snow...
Fun Friday Vibes
Image by congerdesign from Pixabay BY: RACHEL WUMKES We are getting so close. Even though snow still covers most of the ground outside, the major up-swing in temps this week has me all sorts of excited. For the return of chirping birds, for green grass, for the trees to sprout buds. For open water again! While there are...
It’s For the Birds
Cover Photo Credit: Jennifer Ostrander BY: RACHEL WUMKES With the recent barrage of snow over the weekend, it’s hard to grasp the fact that Spring is just around the corner. Part of me doesn’t want to bring it up in fear I’ll jinx it and we will get more snow dumped on us. Yet, a small part of me is bursting at the seams...
Reading is my Superpower
Image by Comfreak from Pixabay BY: RACHEL WUMKES Even before my children were born, I read to them. As I sat in their bedroom, patiently waiting their arrival into the World, I paged through books, reading line after line. Little did I realize it was the first of thousands of times I’d read those very same books. Over...
Thawing Out
Image by Fred T. from Pixabay BY: RACHEL WUMKES Okay, so that title might be a bit of an exaggeration. While we have had a 50-degree swing in temperatures from where we were a few days ago, unfortunately, it’s still pretty darn cold. Which is expected. I mean, we live in Iowa, so we should be used to the winters, right?...