Author Archives: Alexis Neely
It’s time to sit down and shut up. It’s time to close our mouths and use our eyes and ears. It’s time to not make everything about ourselves. It’s time to stop saying “all lives matter” in response to hearing “black lives matter.” We are white and we have an enormous amount of privilege and power, and it’s time to recognize that. I would like to ask a...
Disclaimer: “Me Before You” is not the type of book I would go out of my way to pick up off a bookshelf. I lost interest in Nicholas Sparks while I was a junior in high school after I realized he sets unrealistic relationship expectations in which both men and women are held to impossible standards. Since Sparks dominates the romance genre, I have rarely picked up...
Katy Simpson Smith seems like the best kind of optimist. Driven from a young age by a love of the South and her people, she initially sought a career in history, attending Mount Holyoke College, earning a PhD in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and going on to pen the well-received, “We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South 1750-1835.” Smith...
Mississippi State (22-6; 9-5 SEC) used an early spurt in the first quarter win 60-51 over the Ole Miss Rebels (10-17; 2-12 SEC). “A real hard fought game. Hats off to (Mississippi) State for winning the basketball game there,” head coach Matt Insell said, “We had plenty of opportunities. We cut it to five in the fourth quarter and had a lot of momentum going and...
