by celiaadmin | Oct 12, 2015 | Weekly Column
This Mother’s Day I’m looking at a wrinkled black polyester graduation gown on my daughter’s bed. The mortarboard is lying beneath a snoring cat on the bedroom floor. I tiptoe into the room—the Princess is still sleeping–and I...
by celiaadmin | Oct 12, 2015 | Weekly Column
Well, crappity-doo-dah. “Time” magazine has once again released its list of The 100 Most Influential People and I’m not on it. This would be fine except there are a whole lot of people on that list I’ve never even heard of which means that...
by celiaadmin | Oct 12, 2015 | Weekly Column
You just know that Vani Hari, the popular blogger and self-proclaimed “Food Babe,” was the whiny kid in her elementary school cafeteria. Chocolate milk? Who needs that? Drink your watery skim and be happy. I picture her skipping from table to table...
by celiaadmin | Oct 12, 2015 | Weekly Column
My friend, Kevin, was huffing the other day about a breach of etiquette that he had noticed lately. Kevin isn’t the fussy type so it wasn’t that he’d spied a lunch companion using the wrong fork or open-mouth coughing at the salad bar. No, it was...
by celiaadmin | Oct 12, 2015 | Weekly Column
I don’t quite know what to make of the new touchy-feely CEO paradigm. What has happened to the traditional model of CEO: a raging egomaniac demanding more shareholder value no matter how miserable it made his employees. That’s the devil you know....
by celiaadmin | Oct 12, 2015 | Weekly Column
I’m not sure how it happened, but HGTV has eaten my brain. Maybe it was too many nights of falling asleep just as another “House Hunters” couple was squealing about double vanities (apparently the only thing that truly separates us from the...
by celiaadmin | Oct 12, 2015 | Weekly Column
Well, here we go again. Loyal readers may recall that I offered my services when Prince William and Kate Middleton advertised—ADVERTISED—for a nanny to take care of their firstborn. I was a little surprised that they went public with their search. I mean this...
by celiaadmin | Oct 12, 2015 | Weekly Column
While Hillary Clinton’s decision to “erase” 30,000 emails from her private server sent her detractors into foaming-at-the-mouth Benghazi levels of apoplexy, it doesn’t bother me at all. I just want to know how she erased them. Because...
by celiaadmin | Oct 12, 2015 | Weekly Column
I’m coming up on my one-year anniversary volunteering in the main office at the Princess’s high school one morning a week. I don’t tell you this so you’ll think I’m a good person. I tell you this so you’ll understand that I will...
by celiaadmin | Oct 12, 2015 | Weekly Column
Having lunch with a friend who isn’t from the South and, therefore, doesn’t speak fluent fish camp can be an exercise in frustration for all concerned. I said fish camp but it also applies to every barbecue joint that’s worth its hushpuppies...
