by celiaadmin | Oct 12, 2015 | Weekly Column
Recently, I realized that like millions of Americans I am suffering from “digital amnesia.” It sounds serious enough to warrant one of those too-long commercials on the nightly news, doesn’t it? (“Please consult a doctor before you take...
by celiaadmin | Oct 12, 2015 | Weekly Column
These days, much to my surprise, parents must attend college orientation with their kids, which is why Duh Hubby, the Princess and I joined about 500 other parents and students last week at her chosen school, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Go...
by celiaadmin | Oct 12, 2015 | Weekly Column
In the coastal Carolinas, where I live, there have been 11 shark attacks on our beaches this summer. This is the most recorded in one year since they started keeping records of that kind of thing 80 years ago. It sounds bad but it’s still five less than the...
by celiaadmin | Oct 12, 2015 | Weekly Column
The U.S. Treasury Department (motto: Go ahead and spend it! We’ll just print more!) has announced a woman will join Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill and we have five years to decide who that woman will be. Preliminary polls have produced predictable...
by celiaadmin | Oct 12, 2015 | Weekly Column
I loved the movie “Inside Out” and not just because it provided a two-hour respite from the 100-degree temps outside. There’s nowhere colder than a movie theater. Just ask Aunt Verlie, who refuses to go inside one without her official...
by celiaadmin | Oct 12, 2015 | Weekly Column
Now that the Princess has officially graduated and will soon be off to college, Duh Hubby and I have been inundated with helpful advice from friends who have already coped with a suddenly empty nest. They have bravely gone before us and forged a path rather like a...
by celiaadmin | Oct 12, 2015 | Weekly Column
I have never liked those weird duets with dead people (Rod Stewart and Ella Fitzgerald, Barry Manilow and Whitney Houston, Barbra Streisand and Elvis, Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett…wait; no) and I have the same reaction to KFC’s new...
by celiaadmin | Oct 12, 2015 | Weekly Column
I’ve wanted one of those robot vacuum cleaners for a long time but I was too cheap to buy the pricey Roomba. Fortunately, my sister told me about her success with a Walmart knock off called Neato. I had a flashback to when she told me at age 7 that there...
by celiaadmin | Oct 12, 2015 | Weekly Column
I’ve been writing about those wacky Duggars forever it seems. Maybe even since the “One fertilized egg and counting” days. A really long time is all I’m saying. For years, they were my go-to when it came time to nose around for...
by celiaadmin | Oct 12, 2015 | Weekly Column
I was watching “Big Eyes” the other night. In the movie, set in 1958, the mom played by Amy Adams (brill as always) is going on her first job interview ever after leaving her husband. She pulls into the parking lot of a furniture factory where...
