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Monthly Archives: February 2021

“Team Carla” helps our leader through 6 months of hospice, enjoying at least some of every day

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, Feb. 16, 2021 — My wife Carla Offenburger, after six months of hospice care here at home for her cancer, glanced at her reflection in a mirror when she finished showering on a recent day and said to me, “In our wedding vows, when we said ‘in sickness and in…

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February 16, 2021 in Out in Greene County, Iowa.

Shenandoah, Iowa, to Paris, France: What an amazing trip it’s been for Harriet Welty Rochefort

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER SHENANDOAH, Iowa, Dec. 1, 2020 – Back in the 1960s here in my ol’ hometown, there surely must have been some wondering, “Whatever is going to become of the youngest Welty girl!” You want it short and sweet? In the late ’60s, Harriet Welty meandered half the world by herself, twice jumping…

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February 6, 2021 in OFFENBLOGGER.

Carla’s reading report for 2020 was 54 books. They lifted her spirits like never before.

By CARLA OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, Feb. 6, 2021 – For at least 18 years, during which I’ve kept a log of the books I’ve read, my goal has always been at least 52 books in a year.  In the earlier years, I didn’t come close.  But for the last 10 years, I’ve almost always read…

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February 5, 2021 in My View from the Front Porch.

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