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...
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...
