by Celia Rivenbark | Mar 13, 2017 | Weekly Column |
I’ve been reading a lot lately about “aging in place.” To be honest, those words perfectly capture how I feel when I see Sean Spicer step to the microphone in the briefing room. I age in place. But then I realized that’s not what...
by Celia Rivenbark | Mar 6, 2017 | Weekly Column |
Because I am a good American, I was happy to answer the president’s recent call to action that came in the form of an online “Mainstream Media Accountability Survey.” I get a lot of this sort of Trump stuff because he loves me so bigly. I...
by Celia Rivenbark | Feb 26, 2017 | Weekly Column |
Suiting up for my very first protest march recently, I took care that the pink “pussy hat” a friend had ordered for me from Etsy was tilted with just the right mix of solemn jauntiness. Which is hard to pull off, by the way. The day before, I had...
by Celia Rivenbark | Feb 19, 2017 | Weekly Column |
If this whole Trump mess was a movie—and sometimes it feels like it might be—Kellyanne Conway would play the popular mean girl’s sidekick, the misguided foot soldier who does the dirty work so the mean girl will spend time with her. The sidekick will...
by Celia Rivenbark | Feb 12, 2017 | Weekly Column |
It’s rare, perhaps even unheard of, for scandal to erupt in the wholesome can-do world of HGTV. But that was before the marriage of the popular hosts of “Flip or Flop” imploded in public. Cheating Tarek El Moussa must’ve decided marriage...
by Celia Rivenbark | Feb 5, 2017 | Weekly Column |
I know that many of you think the only thing the internet is good for is clicking on stories with provocative teasers such as “What Angie Harmon Looks Like Now is Insane!” OK, first of all, Angie Harmon? Is there some huge Angie Harmon-obsessed...
by Celia Rivenbark | Jan 30, 2017 | Weekly Column |
I wandered into a high-end plumbing supply showroom not long ago and was surprised, not in a good way, when a lid flew open just because I’d walked by. “Just looking,” I said to the potty under my breath, sensing its disappointment. The lid...
by Celia Rivenbark | Jan 22, 2017 | Weekly Column |
Some thoughts before last week’s inauguration… While I enjoyed Meryl Streep’s takedown of Trump at the Golden Globes, I was briefly sad it overshadowed Ryan Gosling’s loving remarks about his “lady.” Eva Mendes tended their...
by Celia Rivenbark | Jan 15, 2017 | Weekly Column |
Even the loudest Obama haters I encountered by email and in person over the past eight years would often add a soft little P.S. to their rants: “I like Michelle, though…” I get that. Michelle Obama and I have a lot in common except for chiseled...
by Celia Rivenbark | Jan 9, 2017 | Weekly Column |
One of the greatest hits as far as Christmas gift-giving was a gizmo called an Echo Dot I gave my nephew. It was a hit despite the obligatory annoying learning curve that comes when any Southerner tries to talk to an artificial intelligence device...
