Kathy Riordan
- Location
- Florida, United States
- Birthday
- April 27
- Bio
- One woman's view of life and the universe.
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Kathy Riordan's Links
- What I Can't Write About
- The Best News Yet
- In My Mother's Arms
- To a Younger Sister
- Do Not Disturb
- Taking the Red-Eye
- Breath of Life
- Tears
- do not resuscitate
- Vigil
- What I Can't Write About
- Poetry, if you like that sort of thing:
- Base Camp in Muddy Bottom
- in tribute to stevie smith
- After the Having, Having Had
- Silver
- There Is No Insurance for This
- Pretty Maids All In a Row
- I Thought I'd Write a Little Villanelle
- At the Beguinage (for Megan)
- Daddy Did You Dream Me Up
- Christmas
- Silver
- Signs and Wonders, and a Christmas Miracle
- The Christmas Baby
- The Ecumenical, Geographical, All-Inclusive Christmas Feast
- Making a List, Checking it Twice
- Santa Dog
- The Dreaded Holiday Letter
- When Santa Was My Grandpa
- A Naked Christmas
- E-Readers and iPhones and Coffee, Oh My! Holiday 2009 Guide
- Favorite Homemade Family Gifts for Christmas
- New to Open Salon?
- Best Posts of Open Salon 2009
- Introduction to Some Great Reads on Open Salon
- Where I've been, where I'm going:
- Paris
- Under a New Mexico Sky
- Casting the Movie of My Life
- Muffin
- Sagebrush and Funeral Potatoes
- Saying Goodbye to Summer at the Cottage
- Twitter from the Inside:
- Twitter Is What You Make It: Who to Follow, and Why
- Posts on World War II:
- Honoring My Soldiers, My Heroes on Veterans Day
- Letter from an American World War II Soldier to His Parents
- On the 65th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden
- Tom Hanks to Bring "Beyond All Boundaries" to WWII Museum
- Some of my work on Iran:
- Iran Fabricates Interpol Involvement in Neda Investigation
- Doctor Claims to Identify Neda's Killer
- Doctor in Neda Video Arrives Safely in London
- Not that Neda: How the Wrong Photo Became an Icon
- Updates on Neda, Symbol of a Revolution
- Her Name Was Neda
- Some of my favorite posts:
- When Mayo Clinic Speaks, I Listen
- Incognito in Istanbul
- Such a Death
- I also write here:
- In My Life
- Journeys
For Better or Worse
I have a thing about vows. When I take them, I mean them.
I remember walking up that long aisle, like Maria in The Sound of Music, not looking back, you up ahead, the four of us on that altar, confident, calm, serene, the right place at the… Read full post »
If you're ever on Captiva Island, Florida, there's a gaudy little bauble called The Bubble Room, a tourist trap filled with everything from Christmas lights to movie paraphernalia that serves up some of the biggest slices of homemade cake you've ever seen, wedges that look like t… Read full post »
As Americans are debating inkscrawls in Sarah Palin's
palm and whether or not the 2008 Presidential election was sexist,
Costa Ricans have gone to the polls to elect a woman to lead
them.
Laura Chinchilla, a social conservative who opposes both gay marriage and abortion, has won election as th… Read full post »
The Greatest Who Superbowl Video of All Time
The Best News Yet
After two long weeks in the hospital, my mother was finally released this weekend.

Crazy Heart
In a recent morning musing, I pondered Jeff Bridges. Must be a Taurus, I thought. Too much like me.
That is not to say that I am the Dude. Or the Starman. Or even Bad Blake. But there's something about Jeff Bridges I get. He's just ever so slightly off… Read full post »
Like all good Canadians, that dog was born in British Columbia. He introduced himself to us at the Tulip Festival in northern Washington while we were on our way home from Hawaii, with a nice trick, getting my brother to pull over at a rest stop.
That… Read full post »
Whenever I travel, there's one item I never leave home without. . .an accessory so useful it trumps almost everything else I own.
A scarf.
I always manage to tuck a big one away in an oversized purse whenever I go on trips, long or short, near or faraway.
Winter Wonderland at the White House
The Christmas holidays might be long past, but our nation's capital is a holiday postcard this morning with fresh snow blanketing the grounds of the White House.
White House correspondents Mark Knoller (CBS) and Ed Henry (CNN) have been posting TwitPics of the snow this morning from Was… Read full post »
In My Mother's Arms




The British Medical Journal The Lancet has retracted a controversial 1998 article which linked the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) vaccine to autism.
The Lancet issued a full retraction in the recent issue, admitting they now accept that claims made by researchers in the articl… Read full post »
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed its nominees for this year's Oscar at 5:38 Pacific Time Tuesday morning, with Academy President Tom Sherak and previously nominated actress Anne Hathaway making the announcement.
The Academy Awards are returning to h… Read full post »
To a Younger Sister

you were little green crocheted blankets
and warm soft baby clothes
snuggled up
taking a bottle
soft hair, soft eyes
crying
laughing
i remember when mom picked your name
and how it fit
you were the light
the laughter
it isn't easy being firstborn
like you… Read full post »
Taking the Red-Eye

Breath of Life
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In Hawaiian, breath of life.
Considered sacred. A gift of God, breathed into man at creation, given along with healing and insight.
To exhale is cleansing. To inhale is to take in the new.
To many cultures, key to health. As the Chinese say, "The man… Read full post »
Tears
Mom once told me she doesn't cry anymore.
She's been taking something for years that prevents it. Recommends it to those whose hearts are close to their eyes, like me.
I'm not much of one for pharmaceuticals. An occasional over-the-counter Tylenol or Advil, a baby aspirin.… Read full post »

The business of death and life is tough stuff.
Apparently when my mother was admitted to the hospital a week ago today through the emergency room, she had neither an advanced directive nor a health care power of attorney.
In the absence of both, they've assumed she… Read full post »
What I Can't Write About

I can't write about you.
I can't write about this.
I can't write about how I just spent the past several days in an ICU somewhere in Oregon, watching you struggle for breath, struggle for life, against all odds.
I can't write about it.
Can't… Read full post »
Yes, Sir, That's My Baby: Welcome to the World, Little iPad!
Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs took the stage at 10:03 a.m. Pacific Time at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and announced what everyone has been waiting for: The Apple iPad.
Set squarely between smart phones and laptops, the iPad looks like a big iPhone, and… Read full post »

Microsoft founder Bill Gates parties with the crowd at the Onitsuka Tiger party at Sundance last Saturday. (photo courtesy The Wrap)
It's no coincidence that Bill Gates is in the headlines this week with his annual letter and official induction into the Twitter fold.
This is a hu… Read full post »

Iranians worldwide marked Saturday what would have been the 27th birthday of Neda Agha-Soltan, the young Iranian student gunned down in post-election violence o… Read full post »
Base Camp in Muddy Bottom
to the lost calusa
base camp in muddy bottom
It was land before it was dirt
Peered up from above on a perch
That view, not spare, swollen
Without what. Who knew? It was
Beyond the thing that could be sworn.
Ibis crossing and turt… Read full post »
Copper

Grandpa was the first person I knew who kept a gallon jug of Tabasco on his kitchen table, checkerboard oilcloth tablecloth pushed up against the wall, painted bright yellow, and if you turned your gaze to the east you saw the copper sunrise over the Wind River mountains… Read full post »
Kathy Riordan's Favorites
Updates
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Lover's Revenge --- Tink's dick superglued to ass
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After the Foreclosures: Lender Revenge?
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Montana: My New Utopia
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Is this the end, my friend?
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James Inhofe's Rectal Cranial Inversion
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Searching for My Father and the French Resistant (epilogue)
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Onions and Aid
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Just when you thought sitting was safe-Aaron Fotheringham
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