The View From The Balcony: “Achilles’ Heel: The Rest of the Story”
May 28th, 2020 | by Randy Weeks
Achilles was the son of Peleus, king of Phthia, and Thetis, a sea nymph. When Achilles was born, Thetis, wanting
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The View From The Balcony: “Welcoming Ourselves Back: History Weighs In”
May 20th, 2020 | by Randy Weeks
by Randy Weeks By the time you read this we’ll have had a few days to venture out from under
Coming Together While Pulled Apart: The Oxford Community Thrives During COVID-19
May 19th, 2020 | by Elizabeth Tettleton
by Elizabeth McDaniel Tettleton On April 1, 2020, hundreds of Oxonians lined up outside Baptist Memorial Hospital for a parade
The View From The Balcony: “Choices in a Time of Fear and Uncertainty”
April 29th, 2020 | by Randy Weeks
I am blessed. I know it in my head; I know it in my heart. I don’t have the Coronavirus,
Let’s Get to Work, Y’all: The Cocktail We Never Thought We Would Need and Shields to Fight The Invisible Enemy
April 15th, 2020 | by Elizabeth Tettleton
Wonderbird Spirits: Gin to Give “I thought people were just doing it as a PR stunt and had no interest
The View From The Balcony: “The Gospel According to Gump”
April 15th, 2020 | by Randy Weeks
I’m writing this on Easter Sunday, April 12. We’re still in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic. On top of
The View From The Balcony: “What a Wonderful World―Really!”
April 1st, 2020 | by Randy Weeks
I drove around Oxford a bit last weekend. The weather was amazing and I have a convertible again. It was
The View From The Balcony: “The Coronavirus: Struggles, Suds, and Silver Linings”
March 18th, 2020 | by Randy Weeks
By the time this issue of The Local Voice hits the streets, no one may have a view from The
The View from the Balcony: “Leon Succombs”
February 26th, 2020 | by Randy Weeks
My good friend, Leon, a very inciteful man, doesn’t exactly cotton to holidays. When Leon was a wee lad, he
The View from The Balcony: “The Curve Balls of Life” by Randy Weeks
February 5th, 2020 | by Randy Weeks
We have met the enemy and he is us. –Pogo A certain preacher always prays long and with enthusiasmfor thieves
The View from the Balcony: An Open Letter to Governor Jonathan Tate Reeves
January 22nd, 2020 | by Randy Weeks
Dear Governor Reeves: Congratulations on being elected as Mississippi’s next Governor. In full disclosure, I did not vote for you.
The View from The Balcony: A New Year’s Revolution
January 8th, 2020 | by Randy Weeks
It was around 5 pm on Sunday, January 5, 2020, the twelfth day of Christmas. The sun had nearly set
The View from the Balcony: It’s Not the Day, It’s the Way
December 18th, 2019 | by Randy Weeks
The night of the Tacky Townie party at Proud Larry’s, the upstairs bar at City Grocery was having a private
The View from the Balcony: Flim Flam Don’t Get Scammed
December 12th, 2019 | by Randy Weeks
On Monday, November 18 at 6:20 a.m., my phone rang. There was nothing all that unusual about an early morning
View from the Balcony: “The Mass Proliferation of Holidays”
November 14th, 2019 | by Randy Weeks
The holidays are upon us and they are legion. We know about the biggies, but there are many lesser-known holidays—some
The View from the Balcony: Bigotry: The Shame and the Stain that Remain
November 4th, 2019 | by Randy Weeks
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, a black woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat
View from the Balcony: “Halloween: Don’t Mess Up When You Dress Up” by Randy Weeks
October 17th, 2019 | by Randy Weeks
When this edition of The Local Voice hits the streets you’ll still have two weeks to decide on a costume
The View from the Balcony: Tête-à-tête with a Whistleblower
October 8th, 2019 | by Randy Weeks
Whistleblower: a person who exposes secretive information or activity that is deemed illegal, unethical, or not correct… The information of alleged
The View from the Balcony: Sweltering, Sizzling September
September 25th, 2019 | by Randy Weeks
Why in the world would we expect September to be more temperate than August? Maybe since Labor Day passes early
The View from the Balcony: Re-evaluating Beliefs
September 10th, 2019 | by Randy Weeks
A few days ago, someone called me out on something. It upset me so much that when I woke up
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