by Celia Rivenbark | Jun 28, 2021 | Weekly Column
Dear Readers: This column ran in Gannett newspapers on Father’s Day. My contract requires me to wait a couple of weeks before posting on my personal media, which is entirely fair. Soooo, that’s why you’re reading a Father’s Day column...
by Celia Rivenbark | Jun 14, 2021 | Weekly Column
Are we honestly supposed to think it’s mere coincidence the Brood X cicadas have emerged after 17 years underground at the exact same time the original cast of “Friends” has emerged in public together after the same 17-year-absence? Well, are...
by Celia Rivenbark | Jun 7, 2021 | Weekly Column
While there is nothing, I repeat, nothing, funny about a 19-year-old with a gun (later revealed to be unloaded) hijacking a school bus full of kindergartners so he could escape his military base, it was hard for savvy parents and teachers to hear the story...
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...
