From Small-Town Bar to Children’s Author at 65

What if the dream you’ve been carrying for decades is still waiting for you? Susan Lienau is 65 years young. She’s spent over 40 years running a small-town bar in northeast Iowa. She’s helped launch a community museum, serves on the city council, co-owns an Airbnb—and somewhere between raising four boys and welcoming six grandchildren, she finally decided to write the children’s book she’d imagined her entire life. Not because it was convenient. Not because she suddenly had “extra time.” But ...