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Monthly Archives: January 2018

“Strong or fragile, I still have cancer.” And so much to live for.

By CARLA OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, Dec. 19, 2017 — It was a year ago right now that my oncologist Dr. Matthew Hill gave me the news that my cancer had returned. That came a year after I’d had major liver surgery in the fall of 2015, when Dr. Qasim Chaudhry removed 60 percent of my…

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January 22, 2018 in My View from the Front Porch.

The quiet inspiration (and fantastic humor) of New Melleray Abbey

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER PEOSTA, Iowa, Jan. 16, 2018 — As I was scribbling on my notepad here the other day, my 93-year-old friend Father Jim O’Connor said, “It looks like you’re interviewing me.”  Maybe, I answered. “I can see the headline now,” he said, “it’ll be, ‘Monks still hiding out but police are getting close!’…

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January 21, 2018 in OFFENBLOGGER.

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