Fresh

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

The alarm goes off. I hit the snooze button. After these processes are repeated for a few turns, I remove myself from my blankets, thus tearing the wrapper off of a brand new day. I never realized how symbolic this ...

O Good Taste, Where For Art Thou?

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

I have thought about it long and hard, although I don't know why. If a man is trying to woo me, I am more likely to be impressed if he quotes lines of Jay-Z rather than lines of Shakespeare. Is ...

Pseudo-Minimalism

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

A few months ago, I was reading one of those celebrity gossip rags, and I came across something that's been nagging at me ever since I read it. Adam Sandler had just purchased a $13 million manse. Cameron Diaz had ...

Jetty Refugees

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

The languid rays of the moonlight carried us down the shore, Following our every curious move forward. The luminescence bounced from ripple to ripple, The bay awash with muted light from the galaxy above. We seemed connected to the orb ...

Fan on the Run

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

Don't laugh. Apparently, I've been under a rock lately—a rock as big as the famous one in Gibraltar. Now that I have emerged from underneath said rock, I feel ashamed...And angry. So Paul McCartney is touring the U.S., huh? And ...

Dear Marty

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

I remember you. You were the object of my adoration when we were in the first grade. During recess, the girls and I would swoon as we watched you play soccer with Jason T. In my amorous haze, I would ...

Doing My Part to Prevent Disease—and Rudeness

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

There’s an epidemic on the rise. It’s a malady that appears to be contagious, as I’m seeing more and more people affected by it every day. It’s serious enough that I have to make sure I continue to take my ...

School Daze

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

Lots of kids are depressed this week. Yep—it's back-to-school time again. It seems as though the summer has run only half of its blistering course. Yet, as the sun rises on another school year, I've been rather pensive myself. As ...

Curb Appeal

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

My husband thinks he's married to a bald, middle-aged Jewish man. We are both huge fans of the HBO series “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Its writer and main character is Larry David, who also created and co-wrote the phenomenal “Seinfeld” series. ...

An Ode to Tony Stewart: Victory and Milk

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

Tony Stewart won the Brickyard 400 on Sunday. Consequently, I was reminded of a poem I wrote about him a long time ago. After all, he is one of my favorite NASCAR drivers. It had been his lifelong dream to ...

Here We Are Now, Entertain Us

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

As far back as my memory allows me to travel, I have always been a music aficionado. As such, I am trying to pinpoint exactly when it was that music really died. Not necessarily in the sense that Don McLean ...

Is this thing on?

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

Tap, tap, tap ”Is this thing on?” (Insert whining feedback noise here.) “Hi. My name is Kelli Rhea, and I’m a ” (No—that’s too cliché.) Ahem “Hello! I’m Kelli Rhea! It’s nice to meet you!” (Booooring.) Ummm “Okay. Let’s break ...