by Celia Rivenbark | Feb 12, 2018 | Weekly Column |
There is something mysteriously absent from the White House these days and people are starting to talk about it. No, not Melania, although that’s a solid guess. I’m referring, of course, to the lack of a White House pet for the first time in...
by Celia Rivenbark | Feb 5, 2018 | Weekly Column |
When I was a kid, anytime the Rev. Billy Graham’s crusade was televised, we were expected to stop catching lightnin’ bugs in mayonnaise jars—the pastime of choice on a steamy Southern night– and head inside. We would take our places on the...
by Celia Rivenbark | Jan 29, 2018 | Weekly Column |
Life Time Fitness, which operates 128 fitness centers in the U.S. and Canada, recently announced the elimination of cable network news stations from its TV screens, claiming the networks’ “politically charged content” was unhealthy for its...
by Celia Rivenbark | Jan 22, 2018 | Weekly Column |
I’m going to say something that will shock some, if not most of y’all, because it defends Donald Trump. Yes, President Trump, appearing to act in the manner of a Completely Normal American for possibly the first time since he was just a young stable...
by Celia Rivenbark | Jan 15, 2018 | Weekly Column |
As I sit here on pins and needles—PINS AND NEEDLES Y’ALL!—awaiting the release of Donald Trump’s nominations for the “most dishonest and corrupt news media awards” he just invented in his big orange noggin, I imagine this is how Meryl...
by Celia Rivenbark | Jan 9, 2018 | Weekly Column |
Hey y’all: I was ‘sposed to post this a couple of weeks ago but never got around to it. After holiday travel and shenanigans, I’ll be back on sked next Monday. In the meantime, hope you enjoy this admittedly tardy offering… Love, Celia Dear...
by Celia Rivenbark | Jan 3, 2018 | Weekly Column |
On Christmas Eve night, I sank into the same burgundy cushioned pew I’ve occupied for decades at my Methodist Church at the beach. The music was soothing my tattered soul, as it does every Christmas Eve. With Duh Hubby and the Princess at my side, I got...
by Celia Rivenbark | Dec 28, 2017 | Weekly Column |
Poor judicial candidate Matthew Petersen, looking every inch the earnest blonde BYU grad that he is, got grilled like a slab of mahi last week, oddly by friendly fire. Freshman Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana, channeling the disbelief and...
by Celia Rivenbark | Dec 18, 2017 | Weekly Column |
Every town in America liked Christmas a lot But the man in the White House most certainly did not! The Trump hated the holidays! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don’t ask why—we don’t know the reason It could be, perhaps, that his hands...
by Celia Rivenbark | Dec 11, 2017 | Weekly Column |
While “Wall Street Journal” reporter Daniel Pearl, a highly respected war correspondent, was risking his life to cover the chilling rise of Al-Queda in Pakistan in February 2002, Donald Trump was busy with other matters. Trump was preparing to film a...