By MARY RICHE  DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 13, 2022 — I’ve been thinking about how I used to spend Sundays with my family and even more about the Stanley Union Church where I grew up.  It was a non-denominational country church in rural northeast Iowa, though it was in the town of Stanley, pop. 81. …

By MARY RICHE DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 2, 2022 — I got married this morning.  The groom, Chuck Offenburger, is a septuagenarian.  So am I.  We were friends for 47 years before we fell in love and decided to spend the rest of our lives together, however long that might be, as husband and wife.…