by Celia Rivenbark | May 7, 2018 | Weekly Column
You know how awkward it is when you love to socialize with a group of couples but there’s that one…that one couple where you like only him or only her? She’s a grump and a gossip (which would be OK, except she only gossips about people you...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 30, 2018 | Weekly Column
Jeff Sessions must be wondering if the whole world has gone mad. Despite being appointed to the powerful position of Attorney General of the United States, Sessions never seems far from the joyless, pursed-lipped tattletale of his youth. In Washington, Sessions...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 23, 2018 | Weekly Column
Now that I’ve seen that Mark Zuckerberg actually owns a big-boy suit, I feel much better about the future of Facebook. OK, no I don’t. Like many who have testified before Congressional committees before him, Zuckerberg had been coached on how to...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 16, 2018 | Weekly Column
I knew when I felt the racing pulse, the flushed skin and constantly upset stomach that I had it. Yes, it’s true: I’m Putin-intolerant. Or Putin-sensitive if you prefer. I have a legitimate allergy to Putin. He speaks and I can only imagine...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 16, 2018 | Weekly Column
I knew when I felt the racing pulse, the flushed skin and constantly upset stomach that I had it. Yes, it’s true: I’m Putin-intolerant. Or Putin-sensitive if you prefer. I have a legitimate allergy to Putin. He speaks and I can only imagine...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 9, 2018 | Weekly Column
It says a lot about our national psyche when the highest rated app for your phone these days is something called Calm. Having just returned from a vacation to San Francisco– in which my greatest worries were which Tartine pastry to order (I chose 8) and...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 2, 2018 | Weekly Column
The Department of Health and Human Services recently announced it will give preference when allocating grant money to agencies that endorse “natural family planning” and abstinence instead of those that prescribe birth control pills and screen for...
by Celia Rivenbark | Mar 26, 2018 | Weekly Column
Facebook, that technological marvel we have all come to depend on so we don’t have to talk to one another (whew!) while at the same time allowing us to creep on old boyfriends, bake a better casserole, easily donate to good causes and learn how Hillary ran...
by Celia Rivenbark | Mar 19, 2018 | Weekly Column
Because I’m a patriot at heart, Ima help Ben Carson out of all this furniture drama. Watching Carson soft-shuffle around the now-famous $31,000 dining room furniture debacle while detailing how his wife had to scrounge in the basement for decent...
by Celia Rivenbark | Mar 9, 2018 | Weekly Column
Let’s just cut to the chase and stipulate that arming classroom teachers, aides, lunchroom ladies, janitors, etc. is the dumbest idea since the Snuggie. It seriously makes that blanket with sleeves look like the discovery of penicillin, amiright?...
