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...
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...