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A Wannabe Movie Critic's Wannabe Movie Review: "Memoirs of a Geisha"
By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand
Christmas dinner has been served, eaten, and put away in Ziploc containers. Photos have been taken. Gifts have been unwrapped. Family members have said their goodbyes. The house is now empty. A tremendous cloud of melancholy replaces the merriment that ...
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A Wannabe Movie Critic's Wannabe Movie Review: "Memoirs of a Geisha"
By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand
Christmas dinner has been served, eaten, and put away in Ziploc containers. Photos have been taken. Gifts have been unwrapped. Family members have said their goodbyes. The house is now empty. A tremendous cloud of melancholy replaces the merriment that ...
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By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand
As I open a blank document on my word processor program and sit here staring at the blinking cursor, I realize how much I have in common with this constant, flashing wonder. I am ready for input. Tell me anything, ...
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Zany Miscellany: The Last Christmas Hurrah
By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand
Ahhh…The final Christmas-themed “Ten Things” of the season…A special thanks goes out to TitanKT for providing this list—it’s been entertaining! Note: I only had 5 items left, so I made up the last 5 questions. Or else I wouldn’t have ...
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By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand
Numbers. They’re such frustrating little characters. They can be quite difficult to manipulate. From time to time, each of us makes an error when punching these numbers on a keypad in a particular order so as to reach a specific ...
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Zany Miscellany: More Christmas Stuffs
By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand
In keeping with last week’s Christmas theme, here’s my snow-tinged “Ten Things” list for this week…Hey—it doesn’t hurt to wish for snow again this year, does it? Favorite Christmas dessert? Fantasy Fudge. The recipe is on the label of the ...
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My DVR had stood—a Loaded Gun—
By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand
It’s not too obvious that I’ve been studying poetry for the past few months, is it? I have a life. And this so-called life requires certain things of me. It requires me to be away from my television set at ...
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Found: A Sturdy Pair of Sea Legs
By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand
Yesterday was, and I apologize for the banality, the first day of the rest of my life. I graduated from University of Houston-Victoria. No amount of eloquence can accurately recreate the feelings I experienced as I set sail from the ...
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Zany Miscellany: Christmas Edition
By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand
A friend of the Vicad blogs, TitanKT, has thoughtfully provided a fun list of holiday-related questions that will guide my “Ten Things” for this week—and the coming weeks, as well. When is the best time to open presents? I open ...
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By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand
“Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” Dylan Thomas wrote this famous line about his father’s last living moments in the poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.” Although Thomas’s poem is really about death, it speaks ...