As promised in my last column (“Notes in My Phone: Part One”), I now present “Notes in...
Randy Weeks
I currently have 371 notes in my cellphone. While there are a few old grocery lists and...
It’s been a year—a full year since the Coronavirus burst on the scene and took the entire...
During Snowzilla my Spirit Guide, Kaw-Liga the Wooden Indian, decided to pitch his teepee in my apartment...
The Sundown Cowboy, self-proclaimed Poet Lariat of The Balcony, was deeply impressed by the work of National...
The Tao Te Ching, the Chinese spiritual classic by Lao Tzu, gives guidance on many things, including...
In the wee hours of last Thursday morning I woke thinking that I wanted to update my...
I fell asleep again on The Balcony at City Grocery last Saturday. You’d think by now I’d...
When this issue of The Local Voice hits the streets, we’ll be two days away from Halloween,...
We don’t need Halloween as a fear factor this year. There’s plenty of scary stuff out there...
The SEC opening last weekend was glorious for some and disastrous for others. But isn’t that how...
It’s been too long since I’ve written about my family on The Balcony. They told me so...
Once upon a time there was a country called Footlandia that was inhabited by four-toed and five-toed...
I had a unique opportunity last week to set up a meeting between Dr. Anthony Fauci and...
In the comic strip, Kudzu, the late Doug Marlette’s preacher character, Rev. Will B. Dunn, was asked...
(from the pen of the Sundown Cowboy, self-proclaimed Poet Lariat of The Balcony) I felt you on...
Wednesday night I found myself restless—unable to sleep—my head swirling with thoughts about all that was going...
Achilles was the son of Peleus, king of Phthia, and Thetis, a sea nymph. When Achilles was...
Over the last four weeks, we’ve hosted a songwriter’s challenge open to all Mississippi musicians. We have...
by Randy Weeks By the time you read this we’ll have had a few days to venture...