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MARY RICHE

Is Mary Riche P!NK’s “#1 fan, of a certain age”? Maybe. We rocked with 30K in Omaha.

By MARY RICHE OMAHA, Neb., August 25, 2023 – “I’m an old rocker, as in rock ’s’ roll,” I told my husband Chuck Offenburger shortly after we got involved.  After learning he had never heard of P!NK, my favorite rock star, I warned him, “I’m probably too much of a rocker for you to handle.”…

August 25, 2023 in MARY RICHE.

The co-leader of our RAGBRAI team decides after crashing twice to heed her guardian angel.

By MARY RICHE  DES MOINES, Iowa, July 20, 2023 — Dear Team (this includes husband Chuck Offenburger and cousin Ellen Roberts): I’m not riding on RAGBRAI.  I fell this past Sunday night during a training ride on one of the recreational trails in the suburb of Johnston.  Banged up my knee and shoulder; my helmet…

July 20, 2023 in MARY RICHE.

Why is she a feminist? “It’s personal,” she writes, in her history of the women’s movement.

By MARY RICHE JEFFERSON, Iowa, July 1, 2023 — The Greene County Historical Society here has just completed a two-year series of museum programs and exhibits on the history of the 1950s, ’60, and ’70s.  My husband Chuck Offenburger was the moderator on Sunday afternoon, June 25, as a group of panelists discussed the social…

July 1, 2023 in MARY RICHE.

How she came to love baseball and hotdogs, and stops at cultural attractions enroute!

By MARY RICHE DES MOINES, Iowa, June 14, 2023 — Folks keep asking me these questions: “Do you really like baseball?”  “When did you become such a baseball fan?”  And my favorite, “Are you a baseball fan just because you’re married to Chuck Offenburger?” Let me just say that, in the last year, I have…

June 14, 2023 in MARY RICHE.

Fantastic RAGBRAI documentary “Shift” by the DM Register is a love letter to the state.

By MARY RICHE DES MOINES, Iowa, May 4, 2023 — I love cinema, and I love being in a theater as the lights go down, the music swells, and the film begins. I love storytelling. And I love Iowa. That’s why I really loved being in the Varsity Cinema for the premiere showing tonight of…

May 8, 2023 in MARY RICHE.

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