by Celia Rivenbark | Jan 16, 2023 | Weekly Column
Everywhere I turn someone’s talking about buccal fat removal. Pronounced “buckle,” the cosmetic surgery removes cheek fat leaving you with gloriously defined cheekbones. I’m not sure, but I believe the popular procedure was invented by...
by Celia Rivenbark | Jan 9, 2023 | Weekly Column
Let’s begin the new year with the lofty goal of finding something we can all agree on. OK, I’ll go first. Somebody needs to tell Harry and Meghan that if they don’t want to be in the awful limelight maybe they should stop making tell-all...
by Celia Rivenbark | Jan 2, 2023 | Weekly Column
Sometimes the very best stories seem to come at the end of the year and that’s true of NPR’s report on a Texas hospital—and many others across America—who found patients and their caregivers united in their obsession with… World Cup soccer. Instead...
by Celia Rivenbark | Dec 27, 2022 | Weekly Column
I write the next paragraph with the full understanding that, as a result, my Twitter account may be dispatched to a place as cold and dark as where Brittney Griner was bustin’ rocks just a couple of weeks ago. Never to be seen again. So be it....
by Celia Rivenbark | Dec 19, 2022 | Weekly Column
While the rest of y’all have been perfecting your eggnog, buying and wrapping gifts for loved ones, and making peace with the fact all your clothes will smell like ham soon, I’ve been enjoying the prickly whining coming out of Iowa. What’s got...
by Celia Rivenbark | Dec 12, 2022 | Weekly Column
While I love to give books as holiday gifts, I have a new rule, as Bill Maher might say and it’s this: I will never buy a book written by someone who served in the Trump administration and NOW wants to talk about how awful and destructive he was....
by Celia Rivenbark | Dec 5, 2022 | Weekly Column
Every so often we in the writing biz are reminded the time may come when we will be replaced by a “bot” that has been programmed to efficiently deliver timely, perfectly punctuated stories to editors. We’re always being told Artificial...
by Celia Rivenbark | Nov 28, 2022 | Weekly Column
Have you noticed formerly normal people now seem intent on telling you they’re living their best life? I can remember when that would’ve been followed immediately by, “And you can, too, if you sell Amway!” But those were simpler...
by Celia Rivenbark | Nov 21, 2022 | Weekly Column
Fall back, they said. You get another hour of sleep Sunday, they said. Uh huh. Tell that to my cats. Joey & Chandler don’t understand the unceremonious, utterly depressing end of daylight saving time. Or much of anything else except the...
by Celia Rivenbark | Nov 14, 2022 | Weekly Column
If you think we’ve all gotten a little more hateful lately, you’ll find validation in the viral response to a happy lil tweet from Daisey Beaton, a newlywed who identifies as… nice. How dare she try to spread love and light through Elon...
