Newsletter
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By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand
I am one of your fellow citizens. I am one of your coworkers. I am one of your classmates. On behalf of a host of germophobes, I have a favor to ask you. Stay in your house. Call in sick. ...
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Viewers—Be <em>Shame</em>fully Aware!
By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand
Currently, there’s a locally produced commercial gracing Victoria’s digital cable airwaves that concerns me. Maybe you’ve seen it. It features a bubbly blonde account executive from Cox Digital Cable. She urges viewers who have a product or service to sell ...
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By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand
Much to my delight, a nomination for a P.R.O.P. award has been sent to me by one of our loyal readers, birddog. So, here it goes (insert drum roll here)………. Congratulations to Staci Vanderford at B & B Automotive! Her ...
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By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand
What do affordable gas prices and good customer service have in common? They’ve both seemingly gone the way of the rotary telephone. Sadly, I could probably count on one hand the number of instances in which I’ve received laudable customer ...
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By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand
There’s probably only one time in a diabetic and/or asthmatic person’s life when he or she can actually benefit from having these chronic illnesses. That bittersweet time is the very beginning of flu shot season, when he or she is ...
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By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand
Midterm exams.
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By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand
It happened last year, and it's happening again now. I have the urge to run away with the circus. I attended the Texas Renaissance Festival this weekend. When I visit Renaissance festivals, a sense of escape overcomes me. I get ...
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By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand
I miss my Mustang 5.0 Throaty exhaust with 3-inch tubes that would echo. A wicked cam loping with a high lift, A reinforced tranny with a stick for a short-throw shift. Cobra intakes to breathe deeper, Make no mistake, this ...
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By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand
So Im back home from Dallas, where I stayed with my parents while I waited for flaky Rita to run her course. My husband and I brought along our four very angry kitties and our most treasured belongings as we ...
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By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand
Though the sun is shining as brightly as ever in Victoria today, a dark cloud hangs over the city and the surrounding regions. The cloud casts shadows of uncertainty, of anxiety, of impending peril. The cloud portends the looming threat ...