By CHUCK OFFENBURGER IOWA CITY, Iowa, Feb. 5, 2015 – I had a flashback the other night to April of 1983, when I learned that the University of Iowa was offering a course in “billiards.” So of course, I drove right over here to audit the class one evening back then, and wrote the following…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, Dec. 26, 2013 — When I was a student at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, back from 1965-’69, I would occasionally find myself around older Vandy sports fans. When it would come up that I was from Iowa, I’d often hear, “Dan McGugin’s home state!” I played baseball on McGugin…
The battle is on at this writer’s rural home – man and two cats vs. mice. In your initial skirmishes after you move to the country, you’re grossed out. Then you get into acceptance and realize that combat with the little critters beats heck out of having to do the finances. But Iowa State U.…
Today we start a new feature here on Offenburger.com. In this “A BLAST FROM THE PAST,” we will regularly go back to earlier stages of our careers and pull up stories we’ve written on a wide variety of topics for many different publications. We begin with this story that Chuck Offenburger wrote this past May…