By CARLA OFFENBURGER OXFORD, Ohio, July 17, 2017 — Connections with our grandkids are made different ways, aren’t they? Lindsay Offenburger, 10, and I share a love for reading and our connection appears to be books. I’ve been filling her book shelves since before she could read, and she has a great collection in her…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER BANCROFT, Iowa, June 16, 2017 — So Carla Offenburger and I, devoted baseball fans that we are, had seriously been considering taking our fold-up touring bicycles out to Cape Cod in Massachusetts. We’d stay for a week, pedaling our bikes into the nearby resort towns, which have teams of college all-stars playing in…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, July 4, 2017 — Grab your cameras and head out to a farm on this Independence Day in 2017. Rural Iowa — at least what we’re seeing of it around us in west central Iowa — seldom ever looks better than this. Green, lush, full. As our pals the Lawtons…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER STORM LAKE, Iowa, May 24, 2017 — Back to campus. While the Cullens, publishers of the Storm Lake Times, have been in New York City collecting their recently-announced Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing, they asked a few old pals from journalism if we’d help fill-up an edition of the Times in their absence. And…
By CARLA OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, July 21, 2017 — In early June I wrote that I had reached the 55-day mark on my oral chemo I started back in April for my adenoid cystic carcinoma cancer. And on July 11, I reached 90 days — the mark that brought on a new CT scan and…