I got to know Bri Dennison when she started helping me figure out how to post Common Ground, my Substack contribution to the Iowa Writer’s Collaborative.| Christie Vilsack
Every year I meet Melinda Shepp Huisinga at the Mt.| christievilsack.substack.com
How are a state fair parade, my last high school dance, and President Barack Obama connected?| Christie Vilsack
Fifteen years ago, I stood in the grocery line in Iowa behind a woman who was trying to buy juice using her WIC allowance.| christievilsack.substack.com
According to the Iowa Farmland Ownership and Tenure Survey conducted in 2023, and required every 5 years by Iowa Code, 46% of Iowa farmland is owned by women.| Christie Vilsack
Apollo 11 landed on the moon July 20, 56 years ago this week.| christievilsack.substack.com
Louise Lex, 95 years-old, retired this week from her job working for the citizens of Iowa at the Department of Public Health.| Christie Vilsack
I like to share the reactions, spoken and written, I’ve received from readers since I started writing Common Ground.| christievilsack.substack.com
My first day as a New York nanny in mid-June 1971 was the beginning of my return to Iowa, even though I didn’t know it at the time.| christievilsack.substack.com
When I walked into her nail salon in Winterset last Friday, Amy (Xuan) Tran gave me a big hug, tears running down her cheeks.| christievilsack.substack.com
We all own the American flag.| christievilsack.substack.com
“We can’t lose one more thing,” said DeeAnn Bierstedt emphatically, as I sat around a table with library advocates in Fenton, Iowa, population 250ish, in Kossuth County.| christievilsack.substack.com
There are a few things you should know about the President of Grandview College in Des Moines, Iowa.| Christie Vilsack
I only knew my mother-in-law for a short time, but she gave me three gifts: a husband, a prayer and a mother-in-law hack.| Christie Vilsack
