by Celia Rivenbark | May 31, 2021 | Weekly Column
The scrawny lil redneck girl held up the line at the convenience store pumps ahead of me as she filled her tank and a few gas cans in the trunk of her car. She was greedy but prepared, unlike the Documented Idiots who pumped gas into Ziplock bags during...
by Celia Rivenbark | May 24, 2021 | Weekly Column
Remember a year ago when researchers who study population trends confidently predicted an unprecedented baby boom due to Covid confinement? The thinking was everyone was stranded at home with nothing to do except the devil’s aerobics so…. Yeah. About...
by Celia Rivenbark | May 17, 2021 | Weekly Column
It’s always sad when a multibillionaire’s marriage breaks up. Not because the marriage failed, although, yeah, whatever, but because the super-rich are so well-insulated there’s very little chance we’ll ever know the true story of what...
by Celia Rivenbark | May 10, 2021 | Weekly Column
Is there anything more predictable than the hue and cry from committed anti-Covid vaxxers that, pandemic or no, they have the right to make their own immunization decisions and it’s none of the government’s business? (More predictable, that...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 26, 2021 | Weekly Column
When I read last week, Matthew McConaughey is considering running for governor in his home state of Texas, I thought he’s going to be late for meetings because he makes such a production of getting in his Lincoln and driving anywhere. Think of all the...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 19, 2021 | Weekly Column
Since when did it become perfectly OK to marginalize and criticize an entire group of people simply because they…fill their homes with “sign art”? Is it so awful to encourage living, laughing and loving? Or to celebrate that, at certain...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 12, 2021 | Weekly Column
Now that the CDC has cleared vaccinated folks to, literally and figuratively, feel free to move about the cabin, maybe it won’t be long before our pandemic confinement ends, and we can resume weightier thoughts than pondering why Leanne Ford always seems...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 5, 2021 | Weekly Column
Friends, our nation remains divided on exactly who should be in charge these days. November was a long time ago and still we are undecided, adrift, unable to agree on who should lead and who should admit this is quite simply not their time. So, I ask you...
by Celia Rivenbark | Mar 29, 2021 | Weekly Column
Last night, I was maybe 18 minutes into what could best be described as a speech to a friend who is also fully vaccinated. Thinking back on it, she honestly didn’t seem that into what I was saying for the last 17 minutes or so. I cared not. When...
by Celia Rivenbark | Mar 22, 2021 | Weekly Column
First it was “Tiger King.” Later, “The Queen’s Gambit.” Later still, a sudden onset obsession with sea “shanties.” We hopscotched from one pandemic craze to the next for a year to feel “connected” to one...
