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Jun 27, 2025

Today is the last Friday of the month, which means it’s time for our Iowa Writers’ Collaborative Zoom call! A gaggle of our members will gather to discuss whatever Robert Leonard and our paid subscribers want to talk about.

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DES MOINES, Iowa — “Humbaby!” “Rock-and-fire!” I used to chant expressions like that a lot when I was the catcher of the Shenandoah IA High School Mustangs baseball team in the summer of 1965. I was the local sportswriter then, too, as some of you might remember…

12 hours ago · Chuck Offenburger

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Chuck Offenburger

I am an Iowa journalist who wrote the "Iowa Boy" column for 21 years for the Des Moines Register.

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