Perspective – people….perspective. I am going to count it. Here is what else I am going to count. I went to pick up my husband’s ice cream cake, Lemon Crunch, and decided that I needed an ice cream sundae for the long, long drive back to my house. Ok, maybe I only live 8 blocks from the ice cream store but my car could have broken down or I could have gotten lost and then where would I have been without my ice cream. Maybe my answer should be that I did not want to dig into Ed’s cake before he got home. Ice cream cakes are not like other cakes where you can just rearrange the frosting to cover imperfections or maybe the occasional ‘testing’ bite. With a world in chaos and changes hitting every which way, we need to change our outlook and find the wins where we can. Every day we are all moving toward the goal that we have defined and moving toward getting Iowa #Back2Biz.


-Lisa Shimkat, State Director