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…

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…

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…