About Me and FAQ

Yes indeedy! I’m taller online. Kidding aside, I host a little Indiana segment on PBS’ The Weekly Special.

It’s a magazine-style show that airs state-wide where I do what I do best: uncover places to stay, play, and eat in small Indiana towns! If I can find a sponsor, I could have my very own full-length little Indiana show! So–anyone have any rich uncles?

little Indiana and family will visit any Indiana town as long as it fits our 15,000 people or less benchmark.

With over 3,000 small towns in Indiana, I had to draw the line somewhere!

The front page is divided up by counties. If you look over on the right sidebar, you can also see a listing of every single town I have visited.

You will also find a regular series that features an Indiana blogger every week, a guide to small town farmers’ markets, and lists of Indiana town festivals and events, small Hoosier wineries, pumpkin patches and apple orchards–even Christmas tree farms.

I appreciate the suggestion but the trouble is…those things cost a lot of money!

If you need a mapping function and want to know where the small town places are that I have visited right around you, I would suggest you look into the little Indiana smartphone travel app!

I’m really proud of the way this app came together. You can instantly see where I have been as well as any recommendations I may have. It costs a $1 so, you know, it’s not going to break the bank, either.

As a matter of fact, I do! I take all the photos and do all the writing on little Indiana. My husband is the navigator or else this would probably be called little Canada!

It’s really turned into a way of life.

I really appreciate the offer, but little Indiana is a one (wo)man show.

Absolutely! It’s just bad ethics to pretend I’ve been somewhere I’ve never been. Unless I’ve personally slept, played, eaten, or shopped at a small town business, it won’t appear on little Indiana.

I promise you that I would never do that.

If it’s a matter of adding it to a list article, please send your information my way! Otherwise, nothing goes up on little Indiana unless I have personally visited your establishment. Please, let me know about it, and I will add it to my list.

Please be aware that I am the mother of two boys and a wife, so this visit won’t happen overnight. I will get there some time! Just maybe not tomorrow, okay?

Not exactly. I do offer (very) inexpensive and stress-free advertising on little Indiana. You can read all about that right here on little Indiana Businesses but for the most part, these trips come out of my pocket.

Of course, there are times when I am hosted by a town, but not every town has the budget for that (or even a tourism department).

little Indiana is a labor of love and something I feel compelled to do.

The best part is when I step inside somewhere or take that first bite and just think, “I can’t wait to share this with my readers!”

You may think that small towns aren’t the most exciting places but I tell you what: we have seriously seen and done more things since beginning this adventure in Fall of 2009 than I ever thought possible!

little Indiana went “live” on September 2, 2009–twelve days before our second son was born.

Now I update at least two times a day, every day. That equals (at the minimum) 52 posts a month! Wowza. It’s funny to think when I began that three posts a week was tough!

You could say I’ve upped my travels–and my writing speed!

I am just paranoid enough to refrain from using images of my children–and I do not use their actual names at all. If I’ve met you in person, it’s not a secret, but the internet is larger than our small towns.

Rather than have to write “my husband, Jeremy Nunemaker” or “Jeremy, my husband” in every post, I decided that “hubs” gave you enough info to know who I mean without adding in a bunch of repetitive wording.

Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to be a writer. The trouble is…I don’t do creative writing.

My favorite writing was the kind that involved papers or essays. Anything but fiction! Silly as it may sound, it never crossed my mind that I could do anything with it.

Years passed and one day I got involved in a travel website. They were giving away a free trip to their most active member. I got to work! I received a phone call saying that I was chosen as the “member of the month” and I was also offered a writing job!

I kept hearing that I needed a blog, a place of my own that someone hadn’t gone over with a red pen. To find out how I got the idea for little Indiana, please watch the video on little Indiana or below.

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