Author Karen Schwallerlives in Milford, Iowa with her husbandon their family farm.Their threechildren are grown - proud products of the family farm, and proud toall be working in agriculture. She has been a writer and photographer all of her adult life, writing news, human interest stores and columns for variouspublications in northwest Iowa, on both a full-time and freelance basis. Sheespecially enjoys writing aboutfarm lifeand ruralliving, and all of the things (happy or sad)that happen on the family farm. She herself is a product of a family farm near Remsen, Iow