by Celia Rivenbark | Aug 26, 2019 | Weekly Column
At first, I thought it was an aberration, just a good friend trying to make life easier for me after a festive birthday dinner. Her tone was firm, leaving no room for even a mouse-squeak of a protest. “Don’t write me a thank you note; it’s...
by Celia Rivenbark | Aug 19, 2019 | Weekly Column
OK, somebody get the paddles and plant ’em on Uncle Joe’s bird-boned chest and yell “CLEAR!!!” Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden needs a serious reboot after last week. Although eloquent in a lofty anti-bigotry speech early on, the...
by Celia Rivenbark | Aug 12, 2019 | Weekly Column
In these terrible times we must cling to things that restore joy to our world-weary souls…visiting a waterfall, picking daisies in a meadow with a giggling grandchild, sharing a banana split with a sweetheart, watching Mitch McConnell’s jaw clench til his...
by Celia Rivenbark | Aug 5, 2019 | Weekly Column
My friend shook her head slowly when I asked if she had noticed –then again, how could she not? – Chris Matthews seems to have a stubborn chest cold because he has been coughing a lot more on TV than usual, which, as I reminded her, was already plenty annoying....
by Celia Rivenbark | Jul 29, 2019 | Weekly Column
There’s so much to love about my native Eastern North Carolina. Driving through the sweet “dog tongue” flower-scented countryside to Greenville recently reminded me why the area’s most famous cheerleader– internationally respected...
by Celia Rivenbark | Jul 22, 2019 | Weekly Column
THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D.C.—The president of the United States today told First Lady Melania Trump she should leave the United States and go back to where she came from and that she should take her parents with her. “Turns out, Melania is from a...
