By CARLA OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, May 25, 2018 — Big news at our Simple Serenity Farm: We are getting a television! It will be the first television in our home since 2004 when we moved here. Before that, since 1996, we had one in the “spare” room for emergency watching of politics or sporting events.…
By CARLA OFFENBURGER OXFORD, Ohio, May 10, 2018 — This is getting serious, folks. Granddaughters Lindsay (10), Casey (7) and Audrey (3) just did a fourth “Master Chef Junior” meal with me last weekend. It proved to be another success for the chefs and for the recipients of a great meal. We spent Friday evening…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER DES MOINES, Iowa, May 1, 2018 — It was fun being able to celebrate with two Des Moines Register editorial writers over breakfast one day last week — the recent Pulitzer Prize winner Andie Dominick and her predecessor on the staff, Bill Leonard. After he retired and then Dominick got his job in…