by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 9, 2018 | Weekly Column
It says a lot about our national psyche when the highest rated app for your phone these days is something called Calm. Having just returned from a vacation to San Francisco– in which my greatest worries were which Tartine pastry to order (I chose 8)...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 2, 2018 | Weekly Column
The Department of Health and Human Services recently announced it will give preference when allocating grant money to agencies that endorse “natural family planning” and abstinence instead of those that prescribe birth control pills and screen for...
by Celia Rivenbark | Mar 26, 2018 | Weekly Column
Facebook, that technological marvel we have all come to depend on so we don’t have to talk to one another (whew!) while at the same time allowing us to creep on old boyfriends, bake a better casserole, easily donate to good causes and learn how Hillary ran...
by Celia Rivenbark | Mar 19, 2018 | Weekly Column
Because I’m a patriot at heart, Ima help Ben Carson out of all this furniture drama. Watching Carson soft-shuffle around the now-famous $31,000 dining room furniture debacle while detailing how his wife had to scrounge in the basement for decent...
by Celia Rivenbark | Mar 9, 2018 | Weekly Column
Let’s just cut to the chase and stipulate that arming classroom teachers, aides, lunchroom ladies, janitors, etc. is the dumbest idea since the Snuggie. It seriously makes that blanket with sleeves look like the discovery of penicillin, amiright?...
by Celia Rivenbark | Mar 5, 2018 | Weekly Column
Donald Trump’s Dickensian suggestion that food stamps should be replaced by home-delivered boxes of canned food—think Blue Apron with less pancetta-wrapped halibut and more expired chili and dented peaches—didn’t get a lot of love when it was...
by Celia Rivenbark | Feb 26, 2018 | Weekly Column
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by Celia Rivenbark | Feb 19, 2018 | Weekly Column
Note to readers (and a warning): This is the first non-political/Trump column I have written in more than a year. I thought it might be fun to give readers (and myself) a week off. That said, I have rarely had more hate mail on any column than I have had on this one....
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...
