The Ugly Car of the Week

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

This week, you get a bonus: two Ugly Cars of the Week together in one post! Is it just me, or do these two cars share an uncanny, unfortunate resemblance? Meet the Toyota Prius...(my apologies to Larry David) ...and the ...

West Virginia University has a new cheerleader

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

I hereby announce—and celebrate—my recent admission to West Virginia University's Integrated Marketing Communication graduate program! By 2008, I should have 'MSIMC' placed neatly after my name on my professional correspondence. I'm not one for favoring lables and titles, but that ...

The Ugly Car of the Week

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

This week I bring to you, in the same vein as last week's Scion xB, the ultra-ugly-stick-beaten Honda Element. Yes, that's it, give me a car with lots of black plastic on it—I really like the sun-faded, weathered look on ...

Like a good (or bad) neighbor...

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

As we traverse the divide between rural living and urban survival, my husband and I are finding it difficult to come to terms on one subject: neighbors. He, being a country boy, doesn’t want to be able to see another ...

When he's sixty-four

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

Today, Sir Paul McCartney turns 64, and radio stations will undoubtedly take advantage of playing The Beatles' "When I'm 64" every chance they get. Sadly, he may not feel like celebrating as much as he had originally intended to because ...

The Ugly Car of the Week

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

Note: A wide cross section of the readership is liable to be offended by this new weekly feature, but as always on "The Q-Sand" (aka "The Flying F Ranch"), anything goes. Now that I spend upwards of about 1.5 hours ...

The state of higher education in our state

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

Can our state’s universities get with the program? The program to which I am referring is Distance Education. You know, Web-based classes. Who knew that in today’s technologically advanced atmosphere, such a feat would be well nigh impossible for some ...

Having time-management difficulties, please stand by...

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

A villanelle for a new beginning

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

Rain placates a land saddened by drought; I wear my childhood in my left shoe; I came into this world screaming, and I’m still as a deer going out. There’s one thing we can’t do without: Water, through and through; ...