By MARY RICHE BENTONVILLE, Arkansas, Dec. 2, 2023 — Annie Leibovitz’s photographs are memorable for being bold and sensitive at the same time. She invites us to see intimate portraits without feeling like a voyeur. Clearly, her subjects trust her because she literally exposes them (sorry for this bad pun). She is both gifted and…
By MARY RICHE BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 31, 2023 – This is a city my husband Chuck Offenburger had never visited. That and the idea that we’d be driving the east half of the nation at a time when the countryside was changing colors, made it a perfect destination for our fall adventure. I love Boston…
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.”…
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…
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…