The View

The View From The Balcony: “Notes in My Phone VIII”

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The View From The Balcony: “Notes in My Phone VIII”

Randy Weeks August 8, 2024

The notes in my phone are real and not the fabrication of a twisted mind—for the most...

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The View From The Balcony: “Trump’s Shoes Matter”

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The View From The Balcony: “Trump’s Shoes Matter”

Randy Weeks July 25, 2024

I was eight years old and in the third grade when, on November 22, 1963, President John...

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The View From The Balcony: “Monkey Business on the Square”

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The View From The Balcony: “Monkey Business on the Square”

Randy Weeks July 23, 2024

Once upon a day so cheerywhile I spoke with friends held dearlyo’er libations cold and beerypond’ring strange...

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The View From The Balcony: “Some Things I’ve Learned So Far”

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The View From The Balcony: “Some Things I’ve Learned So Far”

Randy Weeks April 18, 2024

Nothing is permanent.Bad times and good times are the same in that they both pass away.Gratitude is...

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The View From The Balcony: “Guilty or Not Guilty?”

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The View From The Balcony: “Guilty or Not Guilty?”

Randy Weeks October 12, 2022

My car was on the fritz a few weeks ago and I couldn’t find a rental, so...

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The View From The Balcony: “Notes in My Phone II”

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The View From The Balcony: “Notes in My Phone II”

Randy Weeks April 14, 2021

As promised in my last column (“Notes in My Phone: Part One”), I now present “Notes in...

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The View from the Balcony: Tête-à-tête with a Whistleblower

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The View from the Balcony: Tête-à-tête with a Whistleblower

Randy Weeks October 8, 2019

Whistleblower: a person who exposes secretive information or activity that is deemed illegal, unethical, or not correct… The...

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The View from the Balcony: Sweltering, Sizzling September

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The View from the Balcony: Sweltering, Sizzling September

Randy Weeks September 25, 2019

Why in the world would we expect September to be more temperate than August? Maybe since Labor...

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The View from the Balcony: Re-evaluating Beliefs

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The View from the Balcony: Re-evaluating Beliefs

Randy Weeks September 10, 2019

A few days ago, someone called me out on something. It upset me so much that when...

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The View from The Balcony: The Sheik Saves Christmas

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The View from The Balcony: The Sheik Saves Christmas

Randy Weeks December 12, 2018

It’s cliché to write about New Year’s resolutions this time of year. So I will. I posed...

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The View from the Balcony: Parallel Parking: The Final Word (for now)

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The View from the Balcony: Parallel Parking: The Final Word (for now)

Randy Weeks September 19, 2018

I was going to leave this subject alone for a while. Enough’s enough, right? Evidently not, for...

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