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A photo feature from Mary Riche using her new iPhone camera: “5 Drips & a Red Bloom”

PHOTOS BY MARY RICHE DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan. 21, 2023 — There was a beautiful snow Wednesday evening into Thursday morning.  We got four inches on our patio in Des Moines, eight inches around our apartment in Jefferson and nearly a foot in areas on to the northwest. That made Mary Riche decide to spend…

January 18, 2023 in Feature Photo.

Is it lame to use a column to send holiday greetings and recap our Christmas travels & fun?

By MARY RICHE DES MOINES, Iowa, Dec. 30, 2022 – My husband Chuck Offenburger and I received so many wonderful holiday cards, photos and letters with personal messages that, yes, it seems a bit lame to send holiday greetings and recap our Christmas travels and celebrations in a column.  I’m hoping you’ll indulge me in…

December 30, 2022 in MARY RICHE.

Here we go wassailing! Shenandoah has one of Iowa’s longest-running holiday traditions.

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER SHENANDOAH, Iowa, Dec. 11, 2022 — While driving Saturday morning to my hometown in southwest Iowa, it occurred to me that 2022 marks 50 years since I’ve actually lived here. (Another thing that occurred to me: On the route I took between Des Moines and Shenandoah, you cross the East Nishnabotna River six…

December 22, 2022 in OFFENBLOGGER.

Dick and Mike O’Brien, my first cousins, were among our big family’s very best.

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 17, 2022 — One of the extended Offenburger family’s greatest successes, my first cousin Dr. Richard O’Brien, and his wife, soulmate and perfect partner for 65 years, Joan O’Brien, were both memorialized Thursday morning at St. John’s Catholic Church in the heart of the campus of Creighton University, their alma…

December 17, 2022 in OFFENBLOGGER.

Kenyons’ Thanksgiving is probably like yours: THE EXACT SAME FOOD EVERY YEAR!

By PAM KENYON WAUKEE, Iowa, Nov. 20, 2022 — Like the gravy sliding from its pool atop the mashed potatoes toward the green bean casserole (which is OK), or toward the wild rice casserole (which is also OK), or toward Grandma Joy’s red Jell-o salad (which is NOT ok), most all of my childhood Thanksgiving…

November 20, 2022 in Guest Column.

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