by Celia Rivenbark | May 22, 2017 | Weekly Column |
In Trumpworld, up is down, down is up and it’s difficult to keep the stories straight. Is a government shutdown bad or good? Who knows? Trump has said both emphatically. Basic questions are answered in Trumpspeak, a migraine-inducing stew of malapropisms,...
by Celia Rivenbark | May 15, 2017 | Weekly Column |
I’ve sat in the same pew– or close to it if somebody had the audacity to get there first — at my United Methodist Church for nearly every Sunday for 28 years. The church does a slew of outreach, which is one of the main reasons I love it. We...
by Celia Rivenbark | May 8, 2017 | Weekly Column |
Has this happened to you? You go to a party, or maybe you’re just meeting friends for drinks after work, and no sooner have you settled in than someone cheerily announces there will be “no political talk!” This conversation ban is...
by Celia Rivenbark | May 1, 2017 | Weekly Column |
Whether you’re Democrat, Republican or Exhaustipated (too tired of politics to give a s**t), I think there’s one thing we can all agree on: The recent unexpected barrage of political ads was “too soon.” The one good thing about the...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 24, 2017 | Weekly Column |
MARALAGO, FLA. — President Donald J. Trump announced today that he will be seeking the advice of a top CIA operative whose work he has admired greatly for four seasons so far on Showtime on Demand. “I believe that when people say mean, really...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 17, 2017 | Weekly Column |
Now that President Trump has promised to resuscitate the dying coal industry (“There’s a little black spot on my lung todaaaaay”), what’s next? Mandatory installation of cow-catchers on Amtrak trains? Seems about right. What about...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 10, 2017 | Weekly Column |
The only upside to the Trump presidency I see is a renewed fire in the belly among those of us of a certain age who haven’t protested in a Very Long Time. At first, we almost mistook the fire for reflux. This renewed passion for politics is here to...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 3, 2017 | Weekly Column |
I live near the world’s cutest, coolest little independent bookstore. It’s in an old cotton warehouse made hip years ago by the addition of shops selling things like vinyl records, moustache wax, handmade jewelry and incense. Lucky me....
by Celia Rivenbark | Mar 27, 2017 | Weekly Column |
When I was a little kid, the highlight of every summer was to pile into our sea-green Oldsmobile Delta 88 and head south three hours to Myrtle Beach, S.C., for a long weekend at Waikiki Village. The two-story “motor lodge” was exotic with its...
by Celia Rivenbark | Mar 20, 2017 | Weekly Column |
So apparently passing a highway patrolman who is stopped on the side of the road with his lights on is a big deal. How big, you ask? Well, in the great state of North Carolina, it’s $438 worth of big deal. Crappitydoodah. Did you know that even...
