by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 10, 2017 | Weekly Column
The only upside to the Trump presidency I see is a renewed fire in the belly among those of us of a certain age who haven’t protested in a Very Long Time. At first, we almost mistook the fire for reflux. This renewed passion for politics is here to...
by Celia Rivenbark | Apr 3, 2017 | Weekly Column
I live near the world’s cutest, coolest little independent bookstore. It’s in an old cotton warehouse made hip years ago by the addition of shops selling things like vinyl records, moustache wax, handmade jewelry and incense. Lucky me....
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...
by Celia Rivenbark | Feb 12, 2017 | Weekly Column
It’s rare, perhaps even unheard of, for scandal to erupt in the wholesome can-do world of HGTV. But that was before the marriage of the popular hosts of “Flip or Flop” imploded in public. Cheating Tarek El Moussa must’ve decided marriage...
by Celia Rivenbark | Feb 5, 2017 | Weekly Column
I know that many of you think the only thing the internet is good for is clicking on stories with provocative teasers such as “What Angie Harmon Looks Like Now is Insane!” OK, first of all, Angie Harmon? Is there some huge Angie Harmon-obsessed...
